Description: This ambitious volume brings together original essays on the U.S. women's movement with analyses of women's movements in other countries around the world. A comparative perspective and a common theme-feminism in social movement action-unite these voices in a way that will exci...
Brief description: Nancy E. Whittier is Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology at Smith College. She has taught statistics and research methods for over 30 years, and also teaches classes on gender, sexuality, and social movements. She is the author of Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence (Oxford University Press, 2018), The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotions, Social Movements, and the State (Oxford University Press, 2009), Feminist Generations (Temple, 1995), and numerous articles on social movements, gender, and sexual violence, and is co-editor of Feminist Frontiers (10th edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, with Verta Taylor and Leila Rupp).
Review Quotes:
"What the book offers is an excellet set of essays on feminist organizing framed clearly within the social movement literature. The research findings are relevant not only for scholars interested in feminist mobilization, but for social movement scholars in general." --Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Reader in Social Politics and Media, Loughborough University; Editor-in-Chief of Social Movement Studies, UK, International Feminist Journal of Politics
"A good introduction for those seeking to learn more about the U.S. feminist movement and feminist organizing in several other countries." --Mobilization