Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movement.

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Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1. Doing the Work of the Movement: Feminist Organizations - Myra Marx Ferree and Patricia Yancey Martin Part II: The Politics of Engagements: Challenging the Mainstream 2. What Is the Feminist Movement? - Jane Mansbridge 3. Discursive Politics and Feminist Activism in the Catholic Church - Mary Fainsod Katzenstein 4. Like a Tarantula on a Banana Boat: Ms. Magazine, 1972-1989 - Amy Farrell 5. The Australian Femocratic Experiment: A Feminist Case for Bureaucracy - Hester Eisenstein 6. Moving onto the Terrain of the State: The Battered Women's Movement and the Politics of Engagement - Claire Reinelt 7. Outsider Issues and Insider Tactics: Strategic Tensions in the Women's Policy Network during the 1980s - Roberta Spalter-Roth and Ronnee Schreiber 8. Feminist Organization Success and the Politics of Engagement - Joyce Gelb Part III: Inside Feminist Organizations: Struggle, Learning, Change 9. Feminist Goals and Organizing Processes - Joan Acker 10. Organizational Learning in the Chicago Women's Liberation Union - Margaret Strobel 11. Children of Our Culture? Class, Power, and Learning in a Feminist Bank - Allison Tom 12. Turning Over: Personnel Change in the Columbus, Ohio, Women's Movement, 1969-1984 - Nancy Whittier 13. Black Women's Collectivist Movement Organizations - Their Struggles during the Doldrums - Bernice McNair Barnett Part IV: Emotions: A Hidden Dimension of Organizational Life 14. Watching for Vibes: Bringing Emotions into the Study of Feminist Organizations - Verta Taylor 15. It Was the Best of Times, Was the Worst of Times: Emotional Discourse in the Work Cultures of Feminist Health Clinics - Sandra Morgen 16. Feminism on the Job: Confronting Opposition in Abortion Work - Wendy Simonds Part V: Social Movement Strategies - Differences Between Organizations 17. The Organizational Basis of Conflict in Contemporary Feminism - Carol Mueller 18. Dilemmas of Feminist Coalitions: Collective Identity and Strategic Effectiveness in the Battered Women's Movement - Gretchen Arnold 19. Feminist Clashes with the State: Tactical Choices by State-Funded Rape Crisis Centers - Nancy Matthews 20. Feminist Social Movement Organizations Survive the New Right - Cheryl Hyde 21. Confrontation and Co-optation in Antifeminist Organizations - Susan Marshall Part VI: Expanding the Scope of the Political: An Inclusive Vision of Success 22. Can Feminist Organizations Be Effective? - Suzanne Staggenborg 23. Doing for the Kids: Mexican American Community Activists, Border Feminists? - Mary Pardo 24. Women's Conceptions of the Political: Three Canadian Women's Organizations - Linda Christiansen-Ruffman Part VII: Afterword 25. From Seed to Harvest: Transformations of Feminist Organizations and Scholarship - Jo Freeman Bibliography About the Contributors Index