Identity work in social movements
By: Jo Reger... [et al.], editors.
Contributors: Reger, Jo.
Series: Social movements, protest, and contention series -- v. 30
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780816651399; 9780816651405
Subjects: Social movements; Identity (Philosophical concept); Feminism; Gays -- Identity; Lesbians -- Identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Identity work, sameness, and difference in social movements / Rachel L. Einwohner, Jo Reger, and Daniel J. Myers; title: Doing identity work; title: Just like you: the dimensions of identity presentations in an antigay contested context / Kimberly B. Dugan; title: We're not just lip-synching up here: music and collective identity in drag performances / Elizabeth Kaminski and Verta Taylor; title: Technical advances in communication: the example of white racialist "love groups" and "white civil rights organizations" / Todd Schroer; title: Drawing identity boundaries: the creation of contemporary feminism / Jo Reger; title: Passing as strategic identity work in the Warsaw ghetto uprising / Rachel L. Einwohner; title: I am the man and woman in this house: Brazilian Jeito and the strategic framing of motherhood in a poor, urban community / Kevin Neuhouser; title: Working through identities; title: Ally identity: the politically gay / Daniel J. Myers; title: Being "sisters" to Salvadoran peasants: deep identification and its limitations / Susan Munkres; title: Dealing with diversity: the coalition of labor union women / Silke Roth; title: Diversity discourse and multi-identity work in lesbian and gay organizations / Jane Ward; title: The reconstruction of collective identity in the emergence of U.S. white women's liberation / Benita Roth; title: Afterword. The analytic dimensions of identity: a political identity framework /  Mary Bernstein; title: Contributors; title: Index.