442 - Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Paper Session. Feminist and Intersectional Approaches to Social Movements

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Feminist and intersectional scholars have added important dimensions to social movement scholarship. Attention to issues of gender and the intersecting matrix of social identity have added complexity to the way in which we understand identity construction, movement mobilization, strategies, tactics and outcomes (among a few). This approach is exemplified by the work of scholars such as Verta Taylor and Suzanne Staggengborg in their essay “What Ever Happened to the Women’s Movement?” (Mobilization 2005). While numerous scholars of social movements have taken a feminist and/or intersectional approach to case studies, often generating theory from those cases, this work has not been well-integrated into the core of social movement theory. This session aims to accelerate a conversation about how feminist and intersectional theory reshape key aspects of social movements theory. This open submission session will focus on work by scholars (four to be selected with a discussant) who integrate and build on advances of feminist and intersectional theory to investigate social movements past and present.

Sub Unit

• Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements / Feminist and Intersectional Approaches to Social Movements

Session Organizer

• Nancy E. Whittier, Smith College

Presider

• Nancy E. Whittier, Smith College

Individual Presentations

• Anti-Apartheid Religion NGOs' Responses to Gender-Based Violence in South Africa - Meredith C. Whitnah, Westmont College

• Cooking as Activism: Subversive Culinary Discourse in Liberal Feminism, 1963-1985 - Stacy J. Williams, University of California, San Diego

• The Schools Should Serve the People: Political Intersectionality, Student Activism, and Race-and-Class Inclusive Admissions - Amaka Camille Okechukwu, New York University

Discussants

• Rachel L. Einwohner, Purdue University

• Jo Reger, Oakland University