This Yearbook attends to various ways in which women were active and organized themselves in order to question sex and gender related issues in the political arena. Covering a diverse range of cultures and political situations the Yearbook discusses how women protested against perceived religious suppression; actively participated in local democratic political institutions whilst not really changing gender-roles; or discussed experienced discrepancies between socialism and feminism. How do women find their ways in democratic systems of governance? What do these systems offer them in terms of emancipation and involvement in political decision making affecting their lives? 

Contents: Editorial   Introduction: MIEKE AERTS, Contesting Representations: Towards New Histories of Women's Activism   KATRINE SMIET, One Size Fits All? Femen and the Limits of Secular Feminism   ELENA BORGHI, ‘The time has now come for women to review and reform this system’: Female Subjectivity and the Debate over Child Marriage in Late Colonial India   Showcase: MYRIAM EVERARD, A Colour Portrait of Rosa Manus   Forum: JOSEPHINE VAN DEN BENT, Fighting for Female Voices in a Patriarchical Society. Women’s Activism in (Post-)revolutionary Egypt   ULLA JANSZ, Women Workers Contested. Socialists, Feminists and Democracy at the National Exhibition of Women’s Labour in The Hague, 1898   Poster essay: MARJAN GROOT, Women Political Leaders and the Design of Campaign Portait Posters   MANON PERRY, Feminist Opposition to Abortion. Feframing Histories to Limit Reproductive Rights    SENEM YILDRIM, The Case of Female Mukhtars in Turkey: the 'Glass Ceiling' of Local Politics   KARLIJN OLIJSLAGER, Motherhood, Domestic Display, and Democracy in the Exhibition ‘The Dutch Women 1898-1948’   Summaries   About the authors