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Gender and Social Movements
Jo Reger
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Title: Gender and social movements / Jo Reger.
Description: Medford : Polity Press, 2021. | Series: Social movements | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “How to understand gender activism, from Women’s Lib to #MeToo and trans rights”-- Provided by publisher.
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Subjects: LCSH: Sex role. | Social movements. | Social change.
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Acknowledgments
Writing a book like this one is a chance to review and remember so much of what I have read over the course of my career. Often certain scholars whom I cite or know personally come to feel like old friends and this book was a chance to renew my acquaintance. Some of them are scholars I have known and cited for years such as Verta Taylor, Leila Rupp, Nancy Whittier, Kathy Blee, Rachel Einwohner, Michael Messner, David Meyer, Suzanne Staggenborg, Judy Taylor, and Patricia Yancey Martin. Others are new acquaintances such as Tristan Bridges, Kelsy Kretschmeyer, Heather McKee Hurwitz, Miriam Abelson, Kristen Barber, and Fátima Suárez. I am so grateful for knowing you and your work. Your work is a key part of the scaffolding of this book.
Essential in writing this volume is the work I did as editor of the journal Gender & Society. This experience honed my understanding of gender and intersectionality and gave me the foundation and the confidence to start examining how gender and social movements intertwine. It also allowed me to cast a critical eye on social movement research and explore how gender often is left out of our analyses. I wrote this book because this is the book I wanted to have earlier in the course of my academic career. As a gender and social movement scholar I have often tried to cobble together an understanding of how each influences the other. This book was my opportunity to puzzle this out in my own way. I hope students find this useful in thinking about how the world changes through social movements as well as how the world is structured through gender. As I finish this book, I continue to be amazed by the complexity of gender in our social world – from how it shapes us to how we rebel and seek to change gender. I find that the lens of social movements allows for that complexity to emerge.
I am also grateful to the team at Polity. I had multiple conversations with editor Jonathan Skerrett starting at the 2017 ASA meetings. I was initially unwilling to start on this project, having just completed four years with Gender & Society. He was very patient and, through our continued conversations, I grew excited about the project and the opportunity to bring gender and social movement research into conversation with each other. Assistant Editor Karina Jákupsdóttir was also very patient as she repeatedly checked in and kept this project on track. I am grateful for the three reviewers and their comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. Their insights helped to strengthen my arguments, deepen my discussions, and clarify the points I