Abstract
Given the centrality of nationalism in the political history of Cyprus within the last 50 years or so it is not surprising that the issue of nationality should be the one remaining bastion of formal male superiority in the present territorially divided state. The recent Sex Equality legislation (Chappa 1987: 11) has one proviso — the exclusion of regulations concerning nationality from its reform. It remains a male privilege to pass on automatic citizenship to one’s children. A woman of Cypriot origin can only do so if she is unmarried and there is no legal father. On the other hand, if she is married to a foreigner she is denied this as an automatic right although as a permanent resident she may apply for her children to be granted nationality.
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Anthias, F. (1989). Women and Nationalism in Cyprus. In: Yuval-Davis, N., Anthias, F., Campling, J. (eds) Woman-Nation-State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19865-8_9
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