Feminism and the Women's Movement: Dynamics of Change in Social Movement Ideology and Activism

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Routledge, 2013 M12 2 - 272 pages
In Feminism and the Women's Movement, Barbara Ryan integrates a broad historical view with an analytical framework drawn from the theory of social movements. Relying on participation and observation of diverse groups involved in the woman's movement, interviews with long-term activists, and readings of historical and contemporary movement publications, she discusses the changing nature of feminist ideology and movement organizing. Ryan portrays the successes and difficulties that women have faced in their efforts to effect social change in recent history.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
From Equal Rights to Suffrage
9
Chapter 2 The Womans Suffrage Movement and the Aftermath of Victory
21
The Contemporary Womens Movement
39
Divisions Splits and Trashing
53
The Womens Movement From 1975 to 1982
65
Chapter 6 Changing Orientations in Ideology and Activism
79
Chapter 7 American Women and the Womens Movement During the ReaganBush Years
99
Pornography EssentialismNominalism Class and Race
113
The Womens Movement after the ERA
135
Chapter 10 Conclusion
153
Notes
163
Bibliography
177
Index
197
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Barbara Ryan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Widener University

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