A survey of the history of women's claims to their own citizenship in Europe and the US from the nineteenth century to the present, illustrated through the transnational lives of three expatriate, sexually non-conforming women (Renée Vivien, Romaine Brooks, and Natalie Barney).

"By an excavation of her own transnational life, Hawthorne tracks the interwoven histories of gender, sexuality, and nationality into our present, with its heavily-policed borders and resurgent nationalisms. [...] Women, Citizenship, and Sexuality will appeal to literary scholars and cultural historians interested in sapphic modernism. Historians of gender and sexuality will likewise appreciate the gendered frame through which Hawthorne approaches nationality and sexuality as functionally analogous discourses whose ideological configurations persist into the present."

Jennifer Carr, Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature