Allies On the Road to Victory: Coalition Formation Between The Suffragists and The Woman's Christian Temperance Union

McCammon, Holly J.; Campbell, Karen E.

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“…Our first movement composition measure is an indicator of the presence of a college women's suffrage league in a state. This measure allows us to gauge the impact of the presence of a younger generation of women on the framing of the state movements.The measure is dichotomous and equals "1" if a college women's league exists in a state in a given year and "0" otherwise.12 We use similar dichotomous annual measures to assess the impact of other aspects of the suffrage movements' composition, specifically measures of the presence of a state Congressional Union, cooperative work between the suffragists and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (McCammon and Campbell 2003), and the presence of working-class women in the state suffrage movement. Each of these measures is a binary measure, as well, equal to "1" if the organization or circumstance is present in a given year and "0" otherwise.…”

Section: Data a N D Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another group, however-not a generational group, but women who initially mobilized for another cause and then joined the suffragists-may have had a different influence on the state suffrage movements. Beginning early, in the 1880s, a number of coalitions between the suffragists and state Woman's Christian Temperance Unions (WCTUs) emerged (McCammon and Campbell 2003). In addition, these two groups often had substantial overlap in membership, particularly with WCTU members joining the suffrage movements (Clemens 1999).…”

Section: Social Movement Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The WCTUs had mobilized to combat alcoholism. Their failure to win prohibition reforms in many states politicized the organizations and spurred them to work as well in support of women's suffrage (McCammon and Campbell 2003). They argued that, with the vote, women would be better positioned to influence policy making on alcohol restrictions and, thus, that they would be able to reduce alcohol consumption and make society safer and more wholesome for children and families (Bordin 1990).…”

Section: Social Movement Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“No Weapon Save Argument”: Strategic Frame Amplification in the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movements

McCammon

Hewitt

Smith

2004

The Sociological Quarterly

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US. woman suffragists routinely utilized two types of arguments in their demands for voting rights: justice and reform. The former argument held that women should vote because they were men's equals and therefore should have political rights equal to those of men. Reform arguments stated that women should have the ballot because women, given their unique womanly experiences and perspectives, would bring a unique contribution to politics, making society a more humane place. Although social movement scholars have increasingly studied the framing work of movement activists, few systematic studies of framing activity exist. In this work we examine the circumstances that led the suffragists to amplify one or the other of these motivational frames. We find that the suffragists were quite strategic in their choice of frames, targeting particular audiences and taking advantage of cultural opportunities for frame resonance. We find only limited evidence that their frames were driven by the collective identity of particular groups in the movement.The individuals who participated in the state woman suffrage movements in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries rarely engaged in disruptive and militant activities. The method of gaining voting rights for women that permeated nearly every tactic employed by the suffragists was argumentation. That is, they regularly worked to persuade listeners with their rhetoric that women indeed should be full participants in the democratic system. The suffragists gave public speeches, carried banners in parades, spoke informally on street corners, wrote newspaper columns, distributed handbills, and

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Section: Social Movement Compositionmentioning

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Section: Social Movement Compositionmentioning

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“No Weapon Save Argument”: Strategic Frame Amplification in the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movements

McCammon

Hewitt

Smith

2004

The Sociological Quarterly

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“…Within coalitions, tension arises as organizations need the benefits of coalition but remain wary of losing organizational identity (Croteau and Hicks 2003;Meyer and Corrigall-Brown 2005). Some research (McCammon and Campbell 2002;Meyer and Corrigall-Brown 2005;Van Dyke 2003) focuses on political contexts, arguing that external political threats such as impending policy changes facilitate coalition even when groups have individual concerns about the proposed coalition. Joining a coalition is often a complex decision with high risks.…”

Section: Developing Coalition Framesmentioning

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Marching Toward Reproductive Justice: Coalitional (Re) Framing of the March for Women’s Lives*

Luna

2010

Sociological Inquiry

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This article examines how coalition frames develop and what happens to that frame after the formal coalition ends. To that end, I analyze the frame shift around the 2004 March for Women's Lives (March). The March initially focused on established ideas of reproductive rights around which the four national mainstream co-sponsors previously organized. However, after a newer reproductive justice organization joined the coalition, material and organizing reflected a shift in framing to reproductive justice. How did this change happen? What are the impacts of this event for the women's movement? Through document analysis and interviews, I trace the negotiations that facilitated this framing shift. I argue that this new coalition frame translated into positive lasting changes in organizing for women's reproductive health even as the coalition dissolved and some of the tensions within the larger women's movement remain.

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“…A growing literature analyzes the conditions that bring about coalitions of social movement organizations (SMOs) of different sectors and interests (e.g., McCammon and Campbell 2002;Van Dyke 2003), including a number of recent works on social movement unionism (Hirschsohn 2007;Robinson 2000;Schiavone 2007). 1 But thus far, the question of whether and how multisectoral alliances influence news coverage of social movement concerns and demands has received little attention.…”

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Multisectoral Movement Alliances and Media Access: Salvadoran Newspaper Coverage of the Health Care Struggle

Kowalchuk¹

2010

Lat. Am. polit. soc.

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Focusing on the social movement that resisted the privatization of health care in El Salvador in 2002–3, this article asks how the movement's multisectoral composition influenced news coverage of the health care policy debate. Specifically, it examines whether the diversity of perspectives in the alliance was reflected in the media's source selection and framing of the policy issues. A content analysis of Salvadoran newspapers' coverage shows that the media relied mainly on just two movement actors to represent the antiprivatization position: the striking doctors and the leftist opposition party. It also reveals that a period of elite dissensus on the policy issues opened a temporary opportunity to insert movement messages in the coverage. The study indicates that a multisectoral alliance does not enhance movement influence through the news media, though broad alliances confer strategic advantages for the movement's broader communication work.

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Allies On the Road to Victory: Coalition Formation Between The Suffragists and The Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Cited by 126 publications

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“No Weapon Save Argument”: Strategic Frame Amplification in the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movements

“No Weapon Save Argument”: Strategic Frame Amplification in the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movements

Marching Toward Reproductive Justice: Coalitional (Re) Framing of the March for Women’s Lives*

Multisectoral Movement Alliances and Media Access: Salvadoran Newspaper Coverage of the Health Care Struggle

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