GENDER, CLASS, AND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- 1 December 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gender & Society
- Vol. 12 (6), 626-648
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089124398012006003
Abstract
From the perspective of gender theory, the intersections among gender, class, and race make it difficult, if not impossible, to assign political issues and identities to just one social movement. Instead, the negotiation of movement ownership of issues and identities occurs through interaction among social movements, including interactions that create denial and distance. This article takes the interaction of labor organizing and feminism as the lens for studying movement interaction at three levels: opportunity structure, organizing practices, and framing ideas. Using a case study of a strike of day care workers in West Berlin in the winter of 1989-90, it contrasts inclusive and exclusive forms of solidarity and their consequences for organizational practices. This particular strike received little support from either feminists or the labor movement and eventually failed, an outcome that can be seen as reflecting the weakness of structural and organizational supports for frames favoring inclusive solidarity.Keywords
This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
- Women's Movements and Political Fields: A Comparison of Two Indian CitiesSocial Problems, 1998
- The German State and Feminist Politics: A Double Gender MarginalizationSocial Politics, 1996
- African-American Women in the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965: Gender, Leadership, and MicromobilizationAmerican Journal of Sociology, 1996
- Identity Politics, Political Identities: Thoughts toward a Multicultural PoliticsFrontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 1996
- Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer DilemmaSocial Problems, 1995
- Social Movement SpilloverSocial Problems, 1994
- Women's Culture and Lesbian Feminist Activism: A Reconsideration of Cultural FeminismSigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1993
- INVISIBLE SOUTHERN BLACK WOMEN LEADERS IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:Gender & Society, 1993
- Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change: Women's Groups and the Transformation of U.S. Politics, 1890-1920American Journal of Sociology, 1993