420 - Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender Paper Session. Gender, Sexualities and Emerging Social Movements (co-sponsored with the LGBTQ Caucus)

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Emerging progressive social movements such as BlackLivesMatter, SayHerName, Shout Your Abortion, the DREAMers, and transgender movements are shaped by gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and class in ways that reflect the complexity of contemporary intersectional politics. These dynamics are manifest through social movement strategies and political claims as well as in the relationships between social movement participants and identity constructions among other facets of social movement politics. This panel welcomes papers that examine continuities, divergences, and contradictions in constructions of gender and sexuality in emerging social movements.

Sub Unit

• Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender / Gender, Sexualities and Emerging Social Movements (co-sponsored with the LGBTQ caucus)

Session Organizer

• Nancy A. Naples, University of Connecticut

Individual Presentations

• Still Here, Still Queer: Queer Identity Formation in Contemporary Social Movements - Sarah M Steele, University of Illinois, Chicago

• Confronting Disposession: Indigeneity, Class and Gender in Oaxaca's Anti-Mining Movement - Alessandro Morosin, UC Riverside

• Compton's Cafeteria Riot: Collective Action and Transformational Empowerment among Hypermarginalized Gender Nonconforming Communities - Angela Perone, University of Michigan

Discussant

• Carla A. Pfeffer, University of South Carolina