Crossing Boundaries: Exploring and Mapping Women's Constitutional Interventions in England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland

This article investigates the specificities and particularities of women's constitutional mobilization in England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. It not only writes women into the story of recent constitutional change in the United Kingdom, a subject seldom examined in leading constitutional texts, but it also strives to nuance generalizations about British feminism. By outlining and assessing the differences in women's representational struggles and strategic choices across the United Kingdom, the article contributes to the literature on women's mobilization and its general impact on states and state policy, particularly at the subnational level. Variations are explained through an examination of changing political and socioeconomic contexts, as well as shifting identity politics patterns. The latter prove to be particularly insightful as identity politics strategies are shown not to be inevitably destructive, as is often assumed.