ABSTRACT
The ungendered nature of mucl~ of the mainstream literature on citizenship has been weIl established by now in feminist writings (see, most recendy, Walby 1994). This artic1e is an attempt, on the basis of a review of the literature on women's citizenship, to take stock of some of the dilemmas encountered in pursuit of a conception of citizenship which is genuinely inc1usive of women as a differentiated category. As such, it poses more
1. Exclusionary tensions
i) Beyond the nation-state
It is perhaps paradoxical that a concept associated in modern times with the nation-state is back on the political and academic agenda just at the time when the position of the nation-state is itself 'becoming ambiguous and uncertain' (Bhavnani 1993). This re fleets processes puHing in opposite directions (Turner 1990; Vogel and Moran 1991).
