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The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State

By: Lee Ann Banaszak

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The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State

By: Lee Ann Banaszak

The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State argues that the mobilization and success of the U.S. women's movement cannot be fully understood without recognizing the presence of feminist activist networks inside the federal government. Utilizing in-depth interviews and historical sources, Lee Ann Banaszak's research documents the significant contributions that these insider activists made to the creation of feminist organizations and the vital roles that they played in the development and implementation of policies in many areas, including education, foreign policy, and women's health. Banaszak also finds that working inside government did not always co-opt or deradicalize these activists. Banaszak's research causes us to rethink our current understanding of many social movement concepts and processes, including political opportunities, movement institutionalization, and confrontational tactics, and it alters our conception of the interests and character of the American state.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521115108

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9780521115100

Why Movements Succeed or Fail

Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage

By: Lee Ann Banaszak

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Why Movements Succeed or Fail

Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage

By: Lee Ann Banaszak

Wyoming became the first American state to adopt female suffrage in 1869--a time when no country permitted women to vote. When the last Swiss canton enfranchised women in 1990, few countries barred women from the polls. Why did pro-suffrage activists in the United States and Switzerland have such varying success? Comparing suffrage campaigns in forty-eight American states and twenty-five Swiss cantons, Lee Ann Banaszak argues that movement tactics, beliefs, and values are critical in understanding why political movements succeed or fail. The Swiss suffrage movement's beliefs in consensus politics and local autonomy and their reliance on government parties for information limited their tactical choices--often in surprising ways. In comparison, the American suffrage movement, with its alliances to the abolition, temperance, and progressive movements, overcame beliefs in local autonomy and engaged in a wider array of confrontational tactics in the struggle for the vote. Drawing on interviews with sixty Swiss suffrage activists, detailed legislative histories, census materials, and original archival materials from both countries, Banaszak blends qualitative historical inquiry with informative statistical analyses of state and cantonal level data. The book expands our understanding of the role of political opportunities and how they interact with the beliefs and values of movements and the societies they seek to change.

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Princeton University Press

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1400822076

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9781400822072

Why Movements Succeed or Fail

Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage

By: Lee Ann Banaszak

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Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage

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Princeton University Press

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The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State

The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State

Why Movements Succeed or Fail

Why Movements Succeed or Fail

Why Movements Succeed or Fail

Why Movements Succeed or Fail

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