Feminist organizations : harvest of the new women's movement
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Feminist organizations : harvest of the new women's movement
(Women in the political economy)
Temple University Press, 1995
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Bibliography: p. 411-448
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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Description
This volume contains 26 essays which look at contemporary feminist organisations, how they have survived, the effects of their work and where the women's movement is going.
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Description
This collection of twenty-six original essays looks at contemporary feminist organizations, how they've survived, the effects of their work, the problems they face, the strategies they develop, and where the women's movement is headed. The contributors, leading feminist scholars from nine social science disciplines, examine a wide variety of local feminist organizations, past and preset, illuminating the struggles of feminist organizers and activists.
In the series Women in the Political Economy, edited by Ronnie J. Steinberg.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
1. Doing the Work of the Movement: Feminist Organizations - Myra Marx Ferree and Patricia Yancey Martin
Part II: The Politics of Engagements: Challenging the Mainstream
2. What Is the Feminist Movement? - Jane Mansbridge
3. Discursive Politics and Feminist Activism in the Catholic Church - Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
4. "Like a Tarantula on a Banana Boat": Ms. Magazine, 1972-1989 - Amy Farrell
5. The Australian Femocratic Experiment: A Feminist Case for Bureaucracy - Hester Eisenstein
6. Moving onto the Terrain of the State: The Battered Women's Movement and the Politics of Engagement - Claire Reinelt
7. Outsider Issues and Insider Tactics: Strategic Tensions in the Women's Policy Network during the 1980s - Roberta Spalter-Roth and Ronnee Schreiber
8. Feminist Organization Success and the Politics of Engagement - Joyce Gelb
Part III: Inside Feminist Organizations: Struggle, Learning, Change
9. Feminist Goals and Organizing Processes - Joan Acker
10. Organizational Learning in the Chicago Women's Liberation Union - Margaret Strobel
11. Children of Our Culture? Class, Power, and Learning in a Feminist Bank - Allison Tom
12. Turning It Over: Personnel Change in the Columbus, Ohio, Women's Movement, 1969-1984 - Nancy Whittier
13. Black Women's Collectivist Movement Organizations - Their Struggles during the "Doldrums" - Bernice McNair Barnett
Part IV: Emotions: A Hidden Dimension of Organizational Life
14. Watching for Vibes: Bringing Emotions into the Study of Feminist Organizations - Verta Taylor
15. "It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times": Emotional Discourse in the Work Cultures of Feminist Health Clinics - Sandra Morgen
16. Feminism on the Job: Confronting Opposition in Abortion Work - Wendy Simonds
Part V: Social Movement Strategies - Differences Between Organizations
17. The Organizational Basis of Conflict in Contemporary Feminism - Carol Mueller
18. Dilemmas of Feminist Coalitions: Collective Identity and Strategic Effectiveness in the Battered Women's Movement - Gretchen Arnold
19. Feminist Clashes with the State: Tactical Choices by State-Funded Rape Crisis Centers - Nancy Matthews
20. Feminist Social Movement Organizations Survive the New Right - Cheryl Hyde
21. Confrontation and Co-optation in Antifeminist Organizations - Susan Marshall
Part VI: Expanding the Scope of the Political: An Inclusive Vision of Success
22. Can Feminist Organizations Be Effective? - Suzanne Staggenborg
23. Doing It for the Kids: Mexican American Community Activists, Border Feminists? - Mary Pardo
24. Women's Conceptions of the Political: Three Canadian Women's Organizations - Linda Christiansen-Ruffman
Part VII: Afterword
25. From Seed to Harvest: Transformations of Feminist Organizations and Scholarship - Jo Freeman
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