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Identity work in social movements / Jo Reger, Daniel J. Myers, and Rachel L. Einwohner, editors.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Reger, Jo, 1962-
Myers, Daniel J.
Einwohner, Rachel L.
Series:
Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 30.
Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 30
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Social movements.
Identity (Philosophical concept).
Feminism.
Gay people--Identity.
Gay people.
Lesbians--Identity.
Lesbians.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (328 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social movements is one of the central concerns in the field. This volume offers new scholarship that explores issues of diversity and uniformity among social movement participants. Featuring case studies that range widely-from Jewish resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Poland to antigay Christian movements in the United States to online white supremacy groups-the essays show how participants set aside issues of personal identity in order to merge together
Contents:
Introduction: Identity work, sameness, and difference in social movements / Rachel L. Einwohner, Jo Reger, and Daniel J. Myers
Doing identity work
Just like you: the dimensions of identity presentations in an antigay contested context / Kimberly B. Dugan
"We're not just lip-synching up here": music and collective identity in drag performances / Elizabeth Kaminski and Verta Taylor
Technical advances in communication: the example of white racialist "love groups" and "white civil rights organizations" / Todd Schroer
Drawing identity boundaries: the creation of contemporary feminism / Jo Reger
Passing as strategic identity work in the Warsaw ghetto uprising / Rachel L. Einwohner
I am the man and woman in this house: Brazilian Jeito and the strategic framing of motherhood in a poor, urban community / Kevin Neuhouser
Working through identities
Ally identity: the politically gay / Daniel J. Myers
Being "sisters" to Salvadoran peasants: deep identification and its limitations / Susan Munkres
Dealing with diversity: the coalition of labor union women / Silke Roth
Diversity discourse and multi-identity work in lesbian and gay organizations / Jane Ward
The reconstruction of collective identity in the emergence of U.S. white women's liberation / Benita Roth
Afterword: The analytic dimensions of identity: a political identity framework / Mary Bernstein
Contributors
Index.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780816666416
0816666415
OCLC:
311052825

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