Women and social protest / edited by Guida West, Rhoda Lois Blumberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

West, Guida.

Blumberg, Rhoda Lois.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity.

Women.

Women's rights.

Social movements.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

x, 406 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Summary:

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, this is an invaluable resource for students of social political theory.

Contents:

1. Reconstructing Social Protest from a Feminist Perspective / Guida West, Rhoda Lois Blumberg 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 / Ronald Lawson, Stephen E. Barton 41

3. Women in the Welfare Rights Struggle: The Brooklyn Welfare Action Council / Jackie Pope 57

4. Gender Contested: Women's Participation in the Brookside Coal Strike / Sally Ward Maggard 75

Part II Women in Racial/Ethnic and Nationalist Struggles 99

5. Women and European Socialist Protest, 1871-1921 / Marie Marmo Mullaney 103

6. Women in the Taiping Movement in Nineteenth-Century China / Tim Futing Liao 120

7. The Women Workers' Movement: First-Wave Feminism in Pre-State Israel / Dafna N. Izraeli 134

8. "Men Led, But Women Organized": Movement Participation of Women in the Mississippi Delta / Charles Payne 156

9. White Mothers as Civil Rights Activists: The Interweave of Family and Movement Roles / Rhoda Lois Blumberg 166

10. Women in Revolutionary Movements: Changing Patterns of Latin American Guerrilla Struggle / Linda Lobao 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 / Carolyn Strange 209

12. Women in the West German Green Party: The Uneasy Alliance of Ecology and Feminism / Carol Schmid 225

13. Female-Dominated Local Social Movement Organizations in Disaster-Threat Situations / David M. Neal, Brenda D. Phillips 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 / Virginia Kemp Fish 263

15. The Continuity of the American Women's Movement: An Elite-Sustained Stage / Verta Taylor 277

16. Social Change and Social Activism: First-Wave Women's Movements Around the World / Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Anthony Gary Dworkin, Stephanie Swanson 302

17. The Invisible Army of Women: Lesbian Social Protests, 1969-1988 / Susan Cavin 321

18. Dance, Protest, and Women's "Wars": Cases from Nigeria and the United States / Judith Lynne Hanna 333.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-383) and index.

ISBN:

0195061187

0195065174

OCLC:

20854201