<![CDATA[
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Fills a gap in feminist scholarship by focusing on women�s movements and the different opportunities their political environments provide<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877224631&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="385_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>The Women's Movements of the United States and Western Europe</h1>
<H2>Consciousness, Political Opportunity, and Public Policy</H2>
<h3>edited by Mary Fainsod Katzenstein and Carol McClurg Mueller</h3>
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<BR> 366 pp
6x9
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"An excellent collection of papers covering the feminist movements in seven Western democracies (the United States, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Britain, West Germany and Sweden) at the beginning of the 1980s."</I>
<br>—<b><I>International Affairs</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>Although many of the social movements born in the 1960s and 1970s have expired, the feminist movement is one of the few survivors. Yet the relative infrequence of protests, demonstrations, and marches, the dissolution of the earlier consciousness-raising groups and the more audible self-criticism within the movement has signaled to some movement-watchers that contemporary feminism has spent its force. Obviously, there is a need to gauge exactly where the women�s movement stands today. This book seeks to fill a gap in feminist scholarship by focusing on the women�s movements and the different opportunities their political environments provide. Offering comparisons of the feminist movements in seven countries, the essays seek to assess the power and potential of the feminist movement in Western Europe and the United States.
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><I>"The collection includes a variety of approaches and methods for examining the problems proposed by the editors, including descriptions of policymaking processes, elite interviewing, and opinion surveys. The various papers are all well-conceived.... A rare common perspective, or consciousness, [is] shared by the authors and indicates careful preparation by the editors."</I>
<br>—<b><I>Women and Politics</I></b>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Preface
<br>Introduction: Comparing the Feminist Movements of the United States and Western Europe: An Overview – Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
<p><b>Part I: Changing Consciousness</b>
<br>1. The Diffusion of Consciousness in the United States and Western Europe – Ethel Klein
<br>2. How Women Become Involved in the Women's Movement of the Netherlands – Martien Bri�t, Bert Klandermans, and Frederike Kroon
<br>3. Changing Discourse, Changing Agendas: Political Rights and Reproductive Policies in France – Jane Jenson
<br>4. Collective Consciousness, Identity Transformation, and the Rise of Women in Public Office in the United States – Carol McClurg Mueller
<p><b>Part II: Political Parties and the Structure of Opportunity</b>
<br>5. Women's Struggle in a Workers' City: Feminist Movements in Turin – Judith Adler Hellman
<br>6. Feminism and the Model of Militancy in an Italian Communist Federation: Challenges to the Old Style of Politics – Stephen Hellman
<br>7. Response to Feminism in the Italian Parliament: Divorce, Abortion, and Sexual Violence Legislation – Karen Beckwith
<br>8. Equality and Autonomy: Feminist Politics in the United States and West Germany – Myra Marx Ferree
<br>9. Strategy and Tactics of the Women's Movement in the United States: The Role of Political Parties – Anne N. Costain and W. Douglas Costain
<br>10. Whom You Know versus Whom You Represent: Feminist Influence in the Democratic and Republican Parties – Jo Freeman
<p><b>Part III: The State and Feminist Policy Outcomes</b>
<br>11. Workers' Movements and Women's Interests: The Impact of Labor-State Relations in Britain and Sweden – Mary Ruggie
<br>12. Social Movements "Success": A Comparative Analysis of Feminism in the United States and the United Kingdom – Joyce Gelb
<br>13. Women Made a Difference: Comparable Worth in San Jose – Janet A. Flammang
<p>About the Contributors
<br>Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>Mary Fainsod Katzenstein</b> is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University.</P>
<P><b>Carol McClurg Mueller</b> is Associate Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University, West.</P>
<P>Contributors: Karen Beckwith, Marien Briet, Anne N. Costain, W. Douglas Costain, Janet A. Flammang, Jo Freeman, Joyce Gelb, Judith Adler Hellman, Stephen Hellman, Jane Jenson, Bert Klandermans, Ethel Klein, Fredrike Kroon, Myra MarxFerree, Mary Ruggie, and the editors.</P>
<BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2>
<p><A HREF="/tempress/women.html" TARGET="_top">Women's Studies</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/political.html" TARGET="_top">Political Science and Public Policy</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a>
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<BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2>
<P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/women_political.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Women in the Political Economy</a></i>, edited by Ronnie J. Steinberg.
</p><p>No longer active.<p><i>Women in the Political Economy</i>, edited by Ronnie J. Steinberg, includes books on women and issues of work, family, social movements, politics, feminism, and empowerment. It emphasizes women's roles in society and the social construction of gender and also explores current policy issues like comparable worth, international development, job training, and parental leave.</p>
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