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@Sadads: Thank you very much! I hope to contribute more frequently here.--Señoritaleona (talk) 23:53, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

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Help?

I am working on a project on women's nationality. It's a difficult subject, as most reference works on the topic of nationality do not even mention that well into the 20th century married women did not have their own nationality. Most of the constitutions and civil codes of the Latin American countries used a combination of French, Spanish and Portuguese law, but in essence all legally incapacitated married women. Some of the countries spelled out that women lost their nationality in their laws, but many of them didn't. I have found such vague pronouncements as one written by Francisco Vetancourt Aristeguieta that Ecuadorian women's denationalization was implied by the Constitution of 1852 because it clearly bestowed derivative nationality on foreign women who married Ecuadorian men, and Emma Wold, who presented a dossier on women's nationality to the US congress in 1928 which stated that it was the "official opinion" in Uruguay and Paraguay that their laws were silent on the loss of nationality by marriage.

It seems logical to me that if there was an official opinion, it would have to have been communicated in some fashion. I strongly suspect these must have been judicial opinions, as was the case in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, but I am struggling to find any references for any such cases. I am wondering if you know whether there are any reference works on women's nationality for Uruguay, or barring that, whether you know how I might determine if there were any decisions from the Supreme Court of Uruguay regarding married women losing their nationality prior to 1910? I have found a reference that states that Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay were the only countries globally in which women did not lose their nationality prior to that date. Any help or pointing me in a direction to find someone who could help would be useful. Thanks! SusunW (talk) 22:37, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello @SusunW: This is a very interesting project! Honestly, I didn't know that marriage could imply lose nationality for women. I thought that denationalization depends on the law of the country of origin, when both countries haven't an agreement of double nationality recognition. But it seems that the loss of pre-marital nationality was an issue in discussions on women's civil and political rights in Latin America. This paper briefly comments the topic in the frame of the VII International American Conference of Montevideo (1933). I don't know if it is possible to find online so early documentation from the Supreme Court of Uruguay, but will try to find some clue if I can. --Señoritaleona (talk) 02:36, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Truthfully, I don't think most people know about it, as women's history has focused a lot on suffrage, rather than the underlying situation that women had difficulties pressing for civil rights because they had no defined relationship to any state. Thanks for the article. It's interesting. I honestly will appreciate any help you can give. SusunW (talk) 05:37, 2 March 2021 (UTC)