Women and Social Protest / Edition 1

by Guida West, Rhoda Lois Blumberg

Overview

Bringing together eighteen thought-provoking articles—most of them written especially for this volume—Women and Social Protest addresses a long-neglected area in social history and politics, showing how in recent years feminist social scientists have begun to reexamine women's involvement in social protest, the innovative forms this protest takes, and the impact of activism on women's lives. This timely and comprehensive anthology provides a much-needed forum for discussion of these topics, and shows how the sociological and political literature has long ignored, masked, or distorted the political activities of women, thus creating the stereotype of the "apolitical woman."

Drawing on the work of sociologists, political scientists, historians, and experts in women's studies, Women and Social Protest explores four types of social protest—economic; racial, ethnic, and nationalistic; social nurturing and humanistic; and women's rights—considering a wealth of data from different eras and case studies from around the world. An introductory chapter provides a theoretical framework for the essays and helpful introductions to each section identify and elaborate general themes. In addition, a comprehensive bibliography offers the most extensive, up-to-date list of readings available. One of the first books to examine this important topic in detail, Women and Social Protest is a valuable contribution to the expanding field of social political theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195065176
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/20/1990
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	9.25(w) x 6.13(h) x 1.11(d)
Lexile:	1210L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	3
1.	Reconstructing Social Protest from a Feminist Perspective	3
Part I	Women in Grass-Roots Protests for Economic Survival	37
2.	Sex Roles in Social Movements: A Case Study of the Tenant Movement in New York City	41
3.	Women in the Welfare Rights Struggle: The Brooklyn Welfare Action Council	57
4.	Gender Contested: Women's Participation in the Brookside Coal Strike	75
Part II	Women in Racial/Ethnic and Nationalist Struggles	99
5.	Women and European Socialist Protest, 1871-1921	103
6.	Women in the Taiping Movement in Nineteenth-Century China	120
7.	The Women Workers' Movement: First-Wave Feminism in Pre-State Israel	134
8.	"Men Led, But Women Organized": Movement Participation of Women in the Mississippi Delta	156
9.	White Mothers as Civil Rights Activists: The Interweave of Family and Movement Roles	166
10.	Women in Revolutionary Movements: Changing Patterns of Latin American Guerrilla Struggle	180
Part III	Women in Social-Nurturing/Humanistic Protests	205
11.	Mothers on the March: Maternalism in Women's Protest for Peace in North America and Western Europe, 1900-1985	209
12.	Women in the West German Green Party: The Uneasy Alliance of Ecology and Feminism	225
13.	Female-Dominated Local Social Movement Organizations in Disaster-Threat Situations	243
Part IV	Women in Women's Rights Protests	257
14.	The Struggle over Women's Education in the Nineteenth Century: A Social Movement and Countermovement	263
15.	The Continuity of the American Women's Movement: An Elite-Sustained Stage	277
16.	Social Change and Social Activism: First-Wave Women's Movements Around the World	302
17.	The Invisible Army of Women: Lesbian Social Protests, 1969-1988	321
18.	Dance, Protest, and Women's "Wars": Cases from Nigeria and the United States	333
	Bibliography	346
	Contributors	384
	Index	389