Introduction = 3
1. Reconstructing social protest from a feminist perspective / Guida West and Rhoda Lois Blumberg = 3
Part I Women in grass-roots protests for economic survival = 37
2. Sex roles in social movements: A case study of the tenant movement in New York City / Ronald Lawson and Stephen E. Barton = 41
3. Women in the welfare rights struggle: the brooklyn welfare action council / Jackie Pope = 57
4. Gender contested: wpmen's participation in the brookside coal strike / Sally Ward Maggard = 75
Part II Women in racial/ethnic and nationalist struggles = 99
5. women and European socialist protest, 1871-1921 / Marie Marmo Mullaney = 103
6. Women in the taiping movement in nineteenth-century China / Tim Futing Liao = 120
7. The women workers' movement: first-wave feminism in pre-state Israel / Dafna N. Izraeli = 134
8. "Men Led, but women organized": movement participation of women in the mississippi delta / Charles Payne = 156
9. White mothers as civil rights activists: the interweave of gamily and movement roles / Rhoda Lois Blumberg = 166
10. Women in revolutionary movements: changing patterns of Latin American guerrilla struggle / Linda Lobao = 180
Part III Women in social-nurturing/humanistic protests = 205
11. mothers on the march: maternalism in women's protest for peace in north america and western America and Western Europe, 1900-1985 / Cartolyn Strange = 209
12. Women in the West Gernan green party: the uneasy alliance of ecology and feminism / Carol Schmid = 225
13. Female-Dominated local social movement organizations in disaster-threat situations / David M. Neal and Brenda D. Phillips = 243
Part IV Women in women's right protests = 257
14. The struggle over women's education in the nineteenth century: a social movement and countermovement / Virginia Kemp Fish = 263
15. The continuity of the American women's movement: an elite-sustained stage / Verta Taylor = 277
16. Social change and social activism: first-wave women's movements around the world / Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Anthony Gary Dworkin, and Stephanie Swanson = 302
17. The invisible army of women: lesbian social protests, 1969-1988 / Susan Cavin = 321
18. Dance, protest, and women's wars: case from nigeria and the United States / Judith Lynne Hanna = 333
Bibliography = 346
Contributors = 384
Index = 389
1. Reconstructing social protest from a feminist perspective / Guida West and Rhoda Lois Blumberg = 3
Part I Women in grass-roots protests for economic survival = 37
2. Sex roles in social movements: A case study of the tenant movement in New York City / Ronald Lawson and Stephen E. Barton = 41
3. Women in the welfare rights struggle: the brooklyn welfare action council / Jackie Pope = 57
4. Gender contested: wpmen's participation in the brookside coal strike / Sally Ward Maggard = 75
Part II Women in racial/ethnic and nationalist struggles = 99
5. women and European socialist protest, 1871-1921 / Marie Marmo Mullaney = 103
6. Women in the taiping movement in nineteenth-century China / Tim Futing Liao = 120
7. The women workers' movement: first-wave feminism in pre-state Israel / Dafna N. Izraeli = 134
8. "Men Led, but women organized": movement participation of women in the mississippi delta / Charles Payne = 156
9. White mothers as civil rights activists: the interweave of gamily and movement roles / Rhoda Lois Blumberg = 166
10. Women in revolutionary movements: changing patterns of Latin American guerrilla struggle / Linda Lobao = 180
Part III Women in social-nurturing/humanistic protests = 205
11. mothers on the march: maternalism in women's protest for peace in north america and western America and Western Europe, 1900-1985 / Cartolyn Strange = 209
12. Women in the West Gernan green party: the uneasy alliance of ecology and feminism / Carol Schmid = 225
13. Female-Dominated local social movement organizations in disaster-threat situations / David M. Neal and Brenda D. Phillips = 243
Part IV Women in women's right protests = 257
14. The struggle over women's education in the nineteenth century: a social movement and countermovement / Virginia Kemp Fish = 263
15. The continuity of the American women's movement: an elite-sustained stage / Verta Taylor = 277
16. Social change and social activism: first-wave women's movements around the world / Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Anthony Gary Dworkin, and Stephanie Swanson = 302
17. The invisible army of women: lesbian social protests, 1969-1988 / Susan Cavin = 321
18. Dance, protest, and women's wars: case from nigeria and the United States / Judith Lynne Hanna = 333
Bibliography = 346
Contributors = 384
Index = 389