Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
1. Doing the Work of the Movement: Feminist Organizations - Myra Marx Ferree and Patricia Yancey Martin
Part II: The Politics of Engagements: Challenging the Mainstream
2. What Is the Feminist Movement? - Jane Mansbridge
3. Discursive Politics and Feminist Activism in the Catholic Church - Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
4. "Like a Tarantula on a Banana Boat": Ms. Magazine, 1972-1989 - Amy Farrell
5. The Australian Femocratic Experiment: A Feminist Case for Bureaucracy - Hester Eisenstein
6. Moving onto the Terrain of the State: The Battered Women's Movement and the Politics of Engagement - Claire Reinelt
7. Outsider Issues and Insider Tactics: Strategic Tensions in the Women's Policy Network during the 1980s - Roberta Spalter-Roth and Ronnee Schreiber
8. Feminist Organization Success and the Politics of Engagement - Joyce Gelb
Part III: Inside Feminist Organizations: Struggle, Learning, Change
9. Feminist Goals and Organizing Processes - Joan Acker
10. Organizational Learning in the Chicago Women's Liberation Union - Margaret Strobel
11. Children of Our Culture? Class, Power, and Learning in a Feminist Bank - Allison Tom
12. Turning It Over: Personnel Change in the Columbus, Ohio, Women's Movement, 1969-1984 - Nancy Whittier
13. Black Women's Collectivist Movement Organizations - Their Struggles during the "Doldrums" - Bernice McNair Barnett
Part IV: Emotions: A Hidden Dimension of Organizational Life
14. Watching for Vibes: Bringing Emotions into the Study of Feminist Organizations - Verta Taylor
15. "It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times": Emotional Discourse in the Work Cultures of Feminist Health Clinics - Sandra Morgen
16. Feminism on the Job: Confronting Opposition in Abortion Work - Wendy Simonds
Part V: Social Movement Strategies - Differences Between Organizations
17. The Organizational Basis of Conflict in Contemporary Feminism - Carol Mueller
18. Dilemmas of Feminist Coalitions: Collective Identity and Strategic Effectiveness in the Battered Women's Movement - Gretchen Arnold
19. Feminist Clashes with the State: Tactical Choices by State-Funded Rape Crisis Centers - Nancy Matthews
20. Feminist Social Movement Organizations Survive the New Right - Cheryl Hyde
21. Confrontation and Co-optation in Antifeminist Organizations - Susan Marshall
Part VI: Expanding the Scope of the Political: An Inclusive Vision of Success
22. Can Feminist Organizations Be Effective? - Suzanne Staggenborg
23. Doing It for the Kids: Mexican American Community Activists, Border Feminists? - Mary Pardo
24. Women's Conceptions of the Political: Three Canadian Women's Organizations - Linda Christiansen-Ruffman
Part VII: Afterword
25. From Seed to Harvest: Transformations of Feminist Organizations and Scholarship - Jo Freeman
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