ISBN:
9780415830904
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (228 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Gender and Politics
Parallel Title:
Print version The Women’s Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet : Australia in transnational perspective
DDC:
305.420994
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The death of feminism is regularly proclaimed in the West. Yet at the same time feminism has never had such an extensive presence, whether in international norms and institutions, or online in blogs and social networking campaigns. This book argues that the women's movement is not over; but rather social movement theory has led us to look in the wrong places.This book offers both methodological and theoretical innovations in the study of social movements, and analyses how the trajectories of protest activity and institution-building fit together. The rich empirical study, together with focused
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Women's Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Finding the women's movement; 2 Disruption, continuity and waves in the feminist movement; 3 Discursive politics: changing the talk and raising expectations; 4 Taking to the streets; 5 Hiding in plain sight: Australian women's advocacy organisations; 6 The institutional harvest: women's services and women's policy agencies; 7 Role models and Roller Derby: feminism and popular culture
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Blogging and the women's movement: new feminist networks9 SlutWalking: where is the next generation of Australian feminists?; 10 Global feminist organising: identifying patterns of activism; Appendix: how, what and why; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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