Preface / Sarah Maddison and Marian Sawer -- Finding the women's movement / Marian Sawer -- Disruption, continuity and waves in the feminist movement / Drude Dahlerup -- Discursive politics : changing the talk and raising expectations / Sarah Maddison 4. Taking to the streets / Catherine Strong and Kirsty McLaren -- Hiding in plain sight : women's advocacy organisations / Marian Sawer and Merrindahl Andrew -- The institutional harvest : women's services and women's policy agencies / Merrindahl Andrew -- Role models and Roller Derby : feminism and popular culture / Catherine Strong and Sarah Maddison -- Blogging and the women's movement : new feminist networks / Frances Shaw -- Slut walking : where is the next generation of feminists? / Sarah Maddison -- Global feminist organising : identifying patterns of activism / Myra Marx Ferree and Christina Ewig -- Appendix: how, what and why merrindahl andrew, kirsty mclaren, frances shaw and catherine strong
Summary
The death of feminism is regularly proclaimed in the West. Yet this book argues that the womens movement is not over; but rather social movement theory has led us to look in the wrong places
The death of feminism is regularly proclaimed in the West. Yet this book argues that the womens movement is not over; but rather social movement theory has led us to look in the wrong places. Sarah Maddison from UNSW and Marian Sawer from ANU
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-199) and index