Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
1. Doing the Work of the Movement: Feminist Organizations – Myra
Marx Ferree and Patricia Yancey Martin
Part II: The Politics of Engagements: Challenging the
Mainstream
2. What Is the Feminist Movement? – Jane Mansbridge
3. Discursive Politics and Feminist Activism in the Catholic Church
– Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
4. "Like a Tarantula on a Banana Boat": Ms. Magazine, 1972-1989 –
Amy Farrell
5. The Australian Femocratic Experiment: A Feminist Case for
Bureaucracy – Hester Eisenstein
6. Moving onto the Terrain of the State: The Battered Women's
Movement and the Politics of Engagement – Claire Reinelt
7. Outsider Issues and Insider Tactics: Strategic Tensions in the
Women's Policy Network during the 1980s – Roberta Spalter-Roth and
Ronnee Schreiber
8. Feminist Organization Success and the Politics of Engagement –
Joyce Gelb
Part III: Inside Feminist Organizations: Struggle, Learning,
Change
9. Feminist Goals and Organizing Processes – Joan Acker
10. Organizational Learning in the Chicago Women's Liberation Union
– Margaret Strobel
11. Children of Our Culture? Class, Power, and Learning in a
Feminist Bank – Allison Tom
12. Turning It Over: Personnel Change in the Columbus, Ohio,
Women's Movement, 1969-1984 – Nancy Whittier
13. Black Women's Collectivist Movement Organizations – Their
Struggles during the "Doldrums" – Bernice McNair Barnett
Part IV: Emotions: A Hidden Dimension of Organizational
Life
14. Watching for Vibes: Bringing Emotions into the Study of
Feminist Organizations – Verta Taylor
15. "It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times":
Emotional Discourse in the Work Cultures of Feminist Health Clinics
– Sandra Morgen
16. Feminism on the Job: Confronting Opposition in Abortion Work –
Wendy Simonds
Part V: Social Movement Strategies – Differences Between
Organizations
17. The Organizational Basis of Conflict in Contemporary Feminism –
Carol Mueller
18. Dilemmas of Feminist Coalitions: Collective Identity and
Strategic Effectiveness in the Battered Women's Movement – Gretchen
Arnold
19. Feminist Clashes with the State: Tactical Choices by
State-Funded Rape Crisis Centers – Nancy Matthews
20. Feminist Social Movement Organizations Survive the New Right –
Cheryl Hyde
21. Confrontation and Co-optation in Antifeminist Organizations –
Susan Marshall
Part VI: Expanding the Scope of the Political: An Inclusive
Vision of Success
22. Can Feminist Organizations Be Effective? – Suzanne
Staggenborg
23. Doing It for the Kids: Mexican American Community Activists,
Border Feminists? – Mary Pardo
24. Women's Conceptions of the Political: Three Canadian Women's
Organizations – Linda Christiansen-Ruffman
Part VII: Afterword
25. From Seed to Harvest: Transformations of Feminist Organizations
and Scholarship – Jo Freeman
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
Twenty-six original essays look at contemporary feminist organizations
Twenty-six original essays look at contemporary feminist organizations
Myra Marx Ferree is Professor of Sociology and Women's
Studies at the University of Connecticut.
Patricia Yancey Martin is Daisy Parker Flory Alumni Professor of Sociology at Florida State University.
"This book brings together in a single volume an impressive array
of case studies by scholars and activists who know these
organizations either from first-hand experience or long-term
participant observation and interviewing....It provides a nuanced
and complex portrait of continually evolving organizations."
—Ann Bookman, Policy and Research Director, Women's Bureau, U.S.
Department of Labor
"The opening and closing sections—which deal, respectively, with
our successes in challenging mainstream institutions and in
expanding the scope of politics to include female concerns
traditional considered person—are filled with the analysis we've
all been dying for.... All tease out the wins and losses, errors
and victories, in a balanced way that will help future activists to
build on what works, to avoid, what doesn't and to recognize the
difference."
—The Women's Review of Books
"There's been a resurgence of interest in feminist organizations,
and the sociology of social movements is thriving. This volume's
union of these two streams of thought is a natural one. It is a
potential classic that will draw readers for the next decade."
—Barbara Reskin, Professor of Sociology, Ohio State University
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