Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens

Examines women's citizenship and its relationship to the early 20th-century state

Presents a study of the women imprisoned for alleged anti-patriotic crimes during the early years of the 20th century. This book focuses on the arrests, trials, and defences of women charged under the Wartime Emergency Laws passed soon after the United States entered World War I.

Kennedy's unique study explores the arrests, trials, and defenses of women charged under the Wartime Emergency Laws passed soon after the U.S. entered WWI. These trials became important arenas in which women's relationships and obligations to national security were contested and defined.