The U S Women S Jury Movements And Strategic Adaptation

Author : Holly J. McCammon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Jury
ISBN : 1139379917

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The U.S. Women's Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation by Holly J. McCammon Pdf

When women won the vote in the United States in 1920 they were still routinely barred from serving as jurors, but some began vigorous campaigns for a place in the jury box. This book tells the story of how women mobilized in fifteen states to change jury laws so that women could gain this additional right of citizenship. Some campaigns quickly succeeded; others took substantially longer. The book reveals that when women strategically adapted their tactics to the broader political environment, they were able to speed up the pace of jury reform, while less strategic movements took longer. A comparison of the more strategic women's jury movements with those that were less strategic shows that the former built coalitions with other women's groups, took advantage of political opportunities, had past experience in seeking legal reforms and confronted tensions and even conflict within their ranks in ways that bolstered their action.

Author : Holly J. McCammon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107009929

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The U.S. Women's Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation by Holly J. McCammon Pdf

This book explores efforts by women to gain the right to sit on juries in the United States. After they won the vote, many organized women in the early twentieth century launched a new campaign to further expand their citizenship rights. The work here tells the story of how women in fifteen states pressured lawmakers to change the law so that women could take a place in the jury box. The history shows that the jury movements that tailored their tactics to the specific demands of the political and cultural context succeeded more rapidly in winning a change in jury law.

Author : Holly J. McCammon,Verta Taylor,Jo Reger,Rachel L. Einwohner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190204204

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The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism by Holly J. McCammon,Verta Taylor,Jo Reger,Rachel L. Einwohner Pdf

Over the course of thirty-seven chapters, including an editorial introduction, this handbook provides a comprehensive examination of scholarly research and knowledge on a variety of aspects of women's collective activism in the United States, tracing both continuities and critical changes over time. Women have played pivotal and far-reaching roles in bringing about significant societal change, and women activists come from an array of different demographics, backgrounds and perspectives, including those that are radical, liberal, and conservative. The chapters in the handbook consider women's activism in the interest of women themselves as well as actions done on behalf of other social groups. The volume is organized into five sections. The first looks at U.S. Women's Social Activism over time, from the women's suffrage movement to the ERA, radical feminism, third-wave feminism, intersectional feminism and global feminism. Part two looks at issues that mobilize women, including workplace discrimination, reproductive rights, health, gender identity and sexuality, violence against women, welfare and employment, globalization, immigration and anti-feminist and pro-life causes. Part three looks at strategies, including movement emergence and resource mobilization, consciousness raising, and traditional and social media. Part four explores targets and tactics, including legislative forums, electoral politics, legal activism, the marketplace, the military, and religious and educational institutions. Finally, part five looks at women's participation within other movements, including the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, labor unions, LGBTQ movement, Latino activism, conservative groups, and the white supremacist movement.

Author : David L. Brunsma,Keri Iyall Smith,Brian Gran
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315511849

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Movements for Human Rights by David L. Brunsma,Keri Iyall Smith,Brian Gran Pdf

How do people work together to advance human rights? Do people form groups to prevent human rights from being enforced? Why? In what ways do circumstances matter to the work of individuals collectively working to shape human rights practices? Human society is made of individuals within contexts—tectonic plates not of the earth’s crust but of groups and individuals who scrape and shift as we bump along, competing for scarce resources and getting along. These movements, large and small, are the products of actions individuals take in communities, within families and legal structures. These individuals are able to live longer, yet continue to remain vulnerable to dangers arising from the environment, substances, struggles for power, and a failure to understand that in most ways we are the same as our neighbors. Yet it is because we live together in layers of diverse communities that we want our ability to speak to be unhindered by others, use spirituality to help us understand ourselves and others, possess a space and objects that are ours alone, and join with groups that share our values and interests, including circumstances where we do not know who our fellow neighbor is. For this reason sociologists have identified the importance of movements and change in human societies. When we collaborate in groups, individuals can change the contours of their daily lives. Within this book you will find the building blocks for human rights in our communities. To understand why sometimes we enjoy human rights and other times we experience vulnerability and risk, sociologists seek to understand the individual within her context. Bringing together prominent sociologists to grapple with these questions, Movements for Human Rights: Locally and Globally, offers insights into the ways that people move for (and against) human rights.

Author : David L. Brunsma,Keri E. Iyall Smith,Brian K. Gran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317223030

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Institutions Unbound by David L. Brunsma,Keri E. Iyall Smith,Brian K. Gran Pdf

Institutions--like education, family, medicine, culture, and law--, are powerful social structures shaping how we live together. As members of society we daily express our adherence to norms and values of institutions as we consciously and unconsciously reject and challenge them. Our everyday experiences with institutions not only shape our connections with one another, they can reinforce our binding to the status quo as we struggle to produce social change. Institutions can help us do human rights. Institutions that bridge nation-states can offer resources, including norms, to advance human rights. These institutions can serve as touch stones to changing minds and confronting human rights violations. Institutions can also prevent us from doing human rights. We create institutions, but institutions can be difficult to change. Institutions can weaken, if not outright prevent, human rights establishment and implementation. To release human rights from their institutional bindings, sociologists must solve riddles of how institutions work and determine social life. This book is a step forward in identifying means by which we can loosen human rights from institutional constraints.

Author : David L. Brunsma,Keri E. Iyall Smith,Brian K. Gran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000005103

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Sociology for Human Rights by David L. Brunsma,Keri E. Iyall Smith,Brian K. Gran Pdf

As sociologists deepen their examinations of human rights in their teaching, research, and thinking, it is essential that such work is conducted in a manner that is both mindful and critical of the knowledge we are building upon in sociology and human rights. As the authors of this volume reveal, creating sociological knowledge that examines human rights for the expansion of human rights is something that sociologists are well equipped to undertake, whether through the use of mathematics, comparative-historical analysis, the study of emotions, conversations, or social psychology. In these chapters you will find the roots of the study of human rights deep within sociological research and thinking as well as emerging techniques that will push the discipline as it seeks to expand understanding of human rights together with so many other aspects of the social condition.

Author : Olena Nikolayenko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108416733

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Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe by Olena Nikolayenko Pdf

This book examines a dramatic rise of nonviolent youth movements on the eve of national elections in Eastern Europe.

Author : Eileen H. Tamura
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031020742

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We Too! Gender Equity in Education and the Road to Title IX by Eileen H. Tamura Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive history of the passage of Title IX, the key legislation to bring about gender equity in education. Using a variety of primary source material, this historical study uses sociological conceptual frameworks to analyze feminist activism in the 1960s that culminated in the 1970s with Title IX and its regulation. It mines the field of social network theory and uses concepts from social movement theory to highlight issues that undergirded the struggle to open up the system for women and show how activists were able to achieve their goals. Throughout, the volume highlights interactions between and among various groups: proponents of the women’s movements, political figures, administrative bodies, and policy specialists.

Author : Kurt Schock
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452945118

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Civil Resistance by Kurt Schock Pdf

In the past quarter century the world has witnessed dramatic social and political transformations, due in part to an upsurge in civil resistance. There have been significant uprisings around the globe, including the toppling of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Color Revolutions, the Arab Spring, protests against war and economic inequality, countless struggles against corruption, and demands for more equitable distribution of land. These actions have attracted substantial scholarly attention, reflected in the growth of literature on social movements and revolution as well as literature on nonviolent resistance. Until now, however, the two bodies of literature have largely developed in parallel—with relatively little acknowledgment of the existence of the other. In this useful collection, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars takes stock of the current state of the theoretical and empirical literature on civil resistance. Contributors analyze key processes of nonviolent struggle and identify both frictions and points of synthesis between the narrower literature on civil resistance and the broader literature on social movements and revolution. By doing so, Civil Resistance: Comparative Perspectives on Nonviolent Struggle pushes the boundaries of the study of civil resistance and generates social scientific knowledge that will be helpful for all scholars and activists concerned with democracy, human rights, and social justice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political science
ISBN : WISC:89123893711

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American Review of Politics by Anonim Pdf

Author : University of California, Davis. School of Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law reviews
ISBN : OSU:32437123387793

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U.C. Davis Law Review by University of California, Davis. School of Law Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Sociology
ISBN : UOM:39076002537566

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American Sociological Review by Anonim Pdf

Includes sections "Book reviews" and "Periodical literature."

Author : Susan Chambre,Melinda A. Goldner,Barbara Katz Rothman
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848552149

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Patients, Consumers and Civil Society by Susan Chambre,Melinda A. Goldner,Barbara Katz Rothman Pdf

Medical Sociology is the among the largest and first subdisciplines in Sociology. This series presents issues and concerns in Medical Sociology.

Author : John Gaventa,Rosemary McGee
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848133863

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Citizen Action and National Policy Reform by John Gaventa,Rosemary McGee Pdf

How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories? These questions need answers. Aid agencies have invested heavily in supporting civil society organizations as change agents in fledgling and established democracies alike. Evidence gathered by donors, NGOs and academics demonstrates how advocacy and campaigning can reconfigure power relations and transform governance structures at the local and global levels. In the rush to go global or stay local, however, the national policy sphere was recently neglected. Today, there is growing recognition of the key role of champions of change inside national governments, and the potential of their engagement with citizen activists outside. These advances demand a better understanding of how national and local actors can combine approaches to simultaneously work the levers of change, and how their successes relate to actors and institutions at the international level. This book brings together eight studies of successful cases of citizen activism for national policy changes in South Africa, Morocco, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Turkey, India and the Philippines. They detail the dynamics and strategies that have led to the introduction, change or effective implementation of policies responding to a range of rights deficits. Drawing on influential social science theory about how political and social change occurs, the book brings new empirical insights to bear on it, both challenging and enriching current understandings.

Author : Holly J. McCammon,Lee Ann Banaszak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190265144

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100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment by Holly J. McCammon,Lee Ann Banaszak Pdf

"The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920 giving women in the United States the right to vote. 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment looks back at this 100-year history and asks, how has women's political engagement unfolded over the last century? The book's chapters consider women's successes in the political realm but also biases that women still confront. Volume contributors pay particular attention to the diverse backgrounds and perspectives womenbring to the political arena, reminding us of the insights provided by an intersectional perspective" (ed.).