Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Women and political participation in England, 1918-1970 -- 3 'Providing an opportunity to exercise their energies': the role of the Labour Women's Sections in shaping political identities, South Wales, 1918-1939 -- 4 Count up to twenty-one: Scottish women in formal politics, 1918-1990 -- 5 Scottish women's organizations and the exercise of citizenship c. 1900-c. 1970 -- 6 The 'women element in politics': Irish women and the vote, 1918-2008 -- 7 'Aphrodite rising from the Waves'? Women's voluntary activism and the women's movement in twentieth-century Ireland -- 8 Conflicting rights: the struggle for female citizenship in Northern Ireland -- 9 'Apathetic, parochial, conservative'? Women, élite and mass politics from 1979 to 2009 -- 10 Feminist politics in Scotland from the 1970s to 2000s: engaging with the changing state -- 11 Women and political representation in post-devolution Scotland: high time or high tide? -- 12 Devolution, citizenship and women's political representation in Wales -- 13 The refuge movement and domestic violence policies in Wales -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.