ISBN:
0195061187
,
0195065174
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 406 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Women and Social Protest
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Women in politics
;
Women's rights
;
Feminism
;
Social movements
;
Women -- Political activity
;
Electronic books
;
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Abstract:
Examines the role of women in social protest movements in many countries, concentrating on four categories of protest: those resulting from economic hardship; racial, ethnic, or nationalist struggles; humanistic, global causes; and feminist movements
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Reconstructing Social Protest from a Feminist Perspective""; ""Part I: Women in Grass-Roots Protests for Economic Survival""; ""2. Sex Roles in Social Movements: A Case Study of the Tenant Movement in New York City""; ""3. Women in the Welfare Rights Struggle: The Brooklyn Welfare Action Council""; ""4. Gender Contested: Women's Participation in the Brookside Coal Strike""; ""Part II: Women in Racial/Ethnic and Nationalist Struggles""; ""5. Women and European Socialist Protest, 1871�1921""; ""6. Women in the Taiping Movement in Nineteenth-Century China""
Description / Table of Contents:
""7. The Women Workers' Movement: First-Wave Feminism in Pre-State Israel""""8. ""Men Led, But Women Organized"": Movement Participation of Women in the Mississippi Delta""; ""9. White Mothers as Civil Rights Activists: The Interweave of Family and Movement Roles""; ""10. Women in Revolutionary Movements: Changing Patterns of Latin American Guerrilla Struggle""; ""Part III: Women in Social-Nurturing/Humanistic Protests""; ""11. Mothers on the March: Maternalism in Women's Protest for Peace in North America and Western Europe, 1900�1985""
Description / Table of Contents:
""12. Women in the West German Green Party: The Uneasy Alliance of Ecology and Feminism""""13. Female-Dominated Local Social Movement Organizations in Disaster-Threat Situations""; ""Part IV: Women in Women's Rights Protests""; ""14. The Struggle over Women's Education in the Nineteenth Century: A Social Movement and Countermovement""; ""15. The Continuity of the American Women's Movement: An Elite-Sustained Stage""; ""16. Social Change and Social Activism: First-Wave Women's Movements Around the World""; ""17. The Invisible Army of Women: Lesbian Social Protests, 1969�1988""
Description / Table of Contents:
""18. Dance, Protest, and Women's ""Wars"": Cases from Nigeria and the United States""""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-383) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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