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Abstract Jürgen Habermas shows how the bourgeoisie can appropriate political space by the appropriation of public space. However, this does not apply to women. Analysis of how women have occupied public space in Mongolia reveals why. Successive revolutions in Mongolia have not upset the social relations of sex ; women have remained socially assigned to the private sphere. The masculin political sphere has left them only their identity as women, which limits their participation as citizens and, thusly, their access to the political sphere.