
Women's Movements
Flourishing or in abeyance?
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 2. February 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
188 pages
978-0-415-66413-4 (ISBN)
Description
Written by leading women's movement scholars, this book is the first to systematically apply the idea of social movement abeyance to differing national and international contexts. Its starting point is the idea that the women's movement is over, an idea promoted in the media and encouraged by scholarship that regards disruptive action as a defining element of social movements. It goes on to compare the trajectories over the past 40 years of women's movements in Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Finally, it looks at the extension of feminist activism into supranational and subnational institutions-the global and the local-and into cyberspace.
Comparing these diverse sites of political and social action illuminates some of the major opportunities and constraints that have impacted upon women's movements. It advances our understanding of the lifecycles of social movements by examining the differing ways in which women's movements operate and sustain themselves over time and space, ways that often differ from those of male-led movements. The book also engages with the question of whether there is an on-going women's movement-with sufficient continuity to warrant description as such-by presenting the voices of young activists East and West.
Filling an important gap in social movement research, this book will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists and gender studies scholars and researchers.
Comparing these diverse sites of political and social action illuminates some of the major opportunities and constraints that have impacted upon women's movements. It advances our understanding of the lifecycles of social movements by examining the differing ways in which women's movements operate and sustain themselves over time and space, ways that often differ from those of male-led movements. The book also engages with the question of whether there is an on-going women's movement-with sufficient continuity to warrant description as such-by presenting the voices of young activists East and West.
Filling an important gap in social movement research, this book will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists and gender studies scholars and researchers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Illustrations
1 s/w Tabelle
1 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-66413-4 (9780415664134)
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Persons
Sandra Grey is a Lecturer in Social Policy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Marian Sawer is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia.
Marian Sawer is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia.
Editor
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Australian National University, Australia
Content
1. Introduction Part 1: In Abeyance? 2. The State of Women's Movement/s in Britain 3. Autonomy and Engagement 4. Institutional, Incremental and Enduring 5. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The New Zealand Women's Movement 6. The Politics of Backlash in the United States and Japan Part 2: New Spaces 7. Gender Specialists and Global Governance: New Forms of Women's Movement Mobilisation? 8. Campaigns for Candidate Gender Quotas: A New Global Women's Movement? 9. Women in Cities 10. Cyberfeminism in Action Part 3: New Feminist Activists 11. New Voices. In Strong Hands: Young Women and the Future of Women's Movements. Australia. Canada. Japan. Korea. New Zealand. Scotland. United States