ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes to cross conceptual borders by exploring some of the political theory that underpins the transforming concept and practice of citizenship in the North American region today especially as it is articulated for and by women. It concerns the plethora of feminist critiques leveled at the liberal model of citizenship. In the acceptance and articulation of new modes of postnational citizenship we find at least a partial expression of a resurgence of new and multiple, overlapping forms of peoples sovereignty challenging state sovereignty. Postnational citizenships are thus most often conceived as pluralistic, multi-leveled, and overlapping types of political identity and belonging. The chapter applies postnationalist citizenships to North America have experienced considerable obstruction. In demonstrating that the citizenry can be seen as something other than an undifferentiated whole, postnational citizenships do provide the beginnings of a way to visualize a functional expression of womens political status that is differentiated from that of men.
