This chapter focuses on the political meanings of state feminism. It begins with an overview of the state’s vision of gender roles and the modern family as concretized in postcolonial legislation. Women’s rights were an aspect of state-building, political centralization, and foreign policy. The national women’s union and the women’s press (the magazines Al-Mar’a, Femme, and Faiza) engaged with and transformed the hegemonic discourses of modern womanhood. The women’s press contributed to wider conversations about postcolonial culture through its attention to women across the Middle East and around the world. Middle-class women, often urban and educated, embodied modern womanhood as they participated in national politics and diplomacy. In the heightened political contexts of Afro-Asian solidarity and Cold War rivalries, women’s allegiances were matters of global political importance. Tunisian women were simultaneously recruited to bolster their nation’s alliance with the United States and improve its reputation among Arab and Middle Eastern nations. Though forced to contend with the hegemonic articulations of liberal state feminism, Tunisian women’s participation in international solidarity networks represented a wide array of feminist positionalities that transcended the parameters of state control and official ideology.