Abstract

This paper tackles the question of citizenship and cosmopolitanism. In the first place it points out the neccesity of a gender-based reading of citizenship at both national and international level. In the second place, it reviews the classic legacy of cosmopolitanism and the proposal of international feminism by Martha C. Nussbaum. It concludes that the idea of a national and transnational citizenship offered by conceptions of pluralism, internationalism and of global citizenship is better articulated with those claims for citizenship made by women.