ABSTRACT
Women’s political participation encompasses a wide range of activities. Previous chapters have examined the involvement of women’s organizations in the nationalist struggle and in the socio-educational sphere of the new nation-state, exploring definitions of womanhood and the relationships between women and the state. Conventional politics is another important area for analyzing women’s activism, illustrating women’s rights and status, and investigating the ability of the women’s movement to pursue gender interests. This chapter will analyse the role of women’s organizations in electoral politics, another priority of women’s activism, explaining how women’s organizations participate in mainstream politics.
