POLSCI 3V03 Lecture Notes - Social Movement Theory, Chador, Anti-Globalization Movement
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Women, social movements, and democratic transition #3 slide. Defining terms: social movements and political protest, strikes and street demonstrations, less visible acts of defiance include every day forms of resistance (james c. scott) Practiced especially by groups that lack power, or face heightened risks. Women in the world who lack power and are subordinated. Lack of open revolt does not mean these groups are acquiescent: democracy, transition to democracy concerns more than narrow institutional (electoral) reform, also includes more even distribution of power in society, especially as regards gender. Social movement theory: rational choice explanations a. Las madras of the plaza de mayo in argentina in the late 1970s, a group of women banded together in defiance of the military regime, and also of traditional political behavior. The majority were housewives, in their 40s and much older, who had never participated in politics. Many of them had no more than a grammar school level of education.