Recognition Struggles and Social Movements
Contested Identities, Agency and Power

Table of Contents

Preface
Notes on contributors
Introduction Barbara Hobson
Part I. Shifting Paradigms? Recognition and Redistribution:
1. Rethinking recognition: overcoming displacement and reification in cultural politics Nancy Fraser
Part II. Frames and Claims: Authority and Voice:
2. The gendering of governance and the governance of gender: abortion politics in Germany and the United States Myra Marx Ferree and William A. Gamson
3. Recognition struggles in universalistic and gender distinctive frames: Sweden and Ireland Barbara Hobson
4. Movements of feminism: the circulation of discourses about women Susan Gal
Part III. Competing Claims: Struggles in Dialogue:
5. Contesting 'race' and gender in the European Union: a multi-layered recognition struggle for voice and visibility Fiona Williams
6. Woman, black, indigenous: recognition struggles in dialogue Marilyn Lake
7. U.S. women's suffrage through a multicultural lens: intersecting struggles of recognition Diane Sainsbury
8. Conflicting struggles for recognition: the Roma struggle in the face of women's recognition Júlia Szalai
Part IV. Authenticity: Who Speaks for Whom?:
9. Scandalous acts: the politics of shame among Brazilian travesti prostitutes Don Kulick and Charles H. Klein
10. Mobilizing for recognition and redistribution on behalf of others? The case of mothers against drugs in Spain Celia Valiente
Part V. Epilogues: Recognition and the struggle for political voice Anna Phillips
'Reconstruction struggles' and process theories of social movements Carol Mueller
Notes
References
Index.

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