WGST 1808 Chapter 3: READING NOTES - Whatever Happened to the Women's Movement? (Staggenborg & Taylor)
10 Feb 2017
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Analyses of the women"s movement that focus on it"s waves & theories of social movements that focus on contentious politics have encouraged the view that the women"s movement is in decline. As early as the 1970s, media commentators & other observers began to discuss the decline of the women"s movement and the arrival of a post-feminist age. Many have argued that the passion that drove feminists in the 1960s & 1970s has been diminished by : successes of the women"s movement, loss of its radical vision, institutionalization. One reason for assumptions abt the death of feminism is that scholars think about the movement in terms of its waves or cycles of protest. Second wave 1960s movement full of passion, drama, innovative tactics, & new ideas. Elements of this visible mass movement began to decline in the 1970s many radical & socialist feminist organizations dissolved. Worldwide, feminist organizations have continued to form & grow.
