ABSTRACT
This chapter closely examines the personal experiences of one member of parliament in her local constituency. The case of Winnie Byanyima provides a glimpse of a Ugandan woman MP in action outside the National Assembly. The chapter is only intended to give readers some idea of how gender, politics, and other social dynamics interact in determining the decisions, trends, and politicking of female MPs when they are out in the field of their local constituencies. It attempts to clarify the operative "social nuts" and "political bolts" exercised by Ugandan women politicians on the ground. Although women were more intimately involved in the overall organization of the party, men stole the show by dominating the limelight at the microphone, delivering speeches and taking most of the credit. Byanyima remarks that women generally had a greater spirit of voluntarism than men but always tended to remain in the shadows on occasions such as this one.
