PROTEST ENGENDERED
- 1 December 1998
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gender & Society
- Vol. 12 (6), 710-728
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089124398012006007
Abstract
This article examines the participation of women in the 1985 labor strike at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel. The author views the strike as a deeply gendered act of protest where the issues, strategies, tactics, and resources used by women workers differ from those used by men, and simultaneously, as the occupational site that provided workers an opportunity to affirm, to modify, and to contest their understandings of gender. Paradoxically, women both challenge and conform to normative gender scripts for protest. They resisted the efforts of men to impose a gender division of labor and sought to mobilize the community in support of the strike.Keywords
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