ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 examines the political struggles of republican women today, and finds a hybrid, or dual struggle, encompassing both formal and informal activism. The chapter finds a shared ambivalence towards institutional politics and its restricted transformative potential among these republican women. Although they do deem it an important sphere for women, formal, parliamentary politics alone is appraised as having insufficient potential to deliver the type of change envisioned by interviewees. I concur that focusing solely on institutional politics produces a partial and ultimately an inaccurate picture of women’s post-war struggles.
