Fighting for NOW : diversity and discord in the National Organization for Women / Kelsy Kretschmer.
A new wave of feminist energy has swept the globe since 2016--from women's marches and the #MeToo movement to transwomen's inclusion and exclusion in feminism and participation in institutional politics. Amid all this, an organization declared dead or dying for thirty years--the National Organizatio...
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Language: | English |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2019]
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Physical Description: | xi, 180 pages ; 22 cm |
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Contents:
- Feminist organizations: stability versus creativity?
- Bureaucracies, boundaries, and splitting
- Breaking at the roots: local schism in NOW
- Sticking at the top: national factionalism and the choice to stay
- Fracturing task forces
- Splitting satellites: non-profit status and schism in social movements
- Conclusion: schisms aren't always bad.