Expanding the Boundaries of the Women's Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights

Nadasen, Premilla

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“…Women 1 and caregivers continue to lead mobilization efforts across the world around housing, the environment, labor health and other key issue areas (Brodkin Sacks, 1988; Feldman & Stall, 2004; Laverack, 2013; Lyons, 2009; Molyneux, 2001; Pardo, 1998; Perry, 2016). For example, women have been at the forefront of housing and labor justice movements in St. Louis (Ervin, 2017), protests against oil companies in Nigeria (Turner & Brownhill, 2002), environmental justice in Central Appalachia and Atlanta (Bell & Braun, 2010; Gomez et al., 2011), labor and union movements in Canada and Thailand (Coulter, 2011; Mills, 2005), and reproductive and social safety net rights (Green, 2011; Nadasen, 2002; Silliman et al., 2004). At their core, these and other grassroots movements have had the mutual goal of caring for and improving the lives of families.…”

Section: Why Parents Largely Mothers Of Color Become Involved In Coll...mentioning

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Collective parent action: A review of motivations, experiences, and social transformations

Cossyleon

Geller

2022

Sociology Compass

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Parents-caregivers of children and other kin-often become involved in collective action because they see a need for change, and because it is part of their practice of caring and thriving. This review traces the mobilization of mothers and caregivers working on progressive community organizing campaigns, what we call collective parent action. We center the experiences of socially marginalized groups and focus on three main areas of inquiry: (1) why caregivers, largely mothers of color, become involved in collective action; (2)what constraints and supports their involvement; and (3) how their involvement shapes them and their families. We end with three main directions for future research and a call for studies to continue to explore the interconnections of gender, family, and collective action.

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Section: Why Parents Largely Mothers Of Color Become Involved In Coll...mentioning

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Collective parent action: A review of motivations, experiences, and social transformations

Cossyleon

Geller

2022

Sociology Compass

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“…8. For American work on questions of difference re lated to motherhood and family between mainstream and immigrant and/or racialized women see, for ex ample, Roth (2004), Baxandall (2001), Nadasen (2002Nadasen ( ), ompson (2002, and . For one Canadian work that addresses some of these issues see Billson (1995).…”

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Family Matters: Immigrant Women’s Activism in Ontario and British Columbia, 1960s -1980s

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This article uses oral history interviews to explore the ways in which different attitudes towards family and motherhood could create major tensions between mainstream feminists and immigrant women’s activists in Ontario and British Columbia between the 1960s and the 1980s. Immigrant women’s belief in the value of the family did not prevent immigrant women from going out to work to help support their families or accessing daycare and women’s shelters, hard fought benefits of the women’s movement. However, these women demanded access to job training, English language classes, childcare, and women’s shelters on their own terms, in ways that minimized the racism they faced, respected religious and cultural values, and respected the fact that the heterosexual family remained an important resource for the majority of immigrant women. Immigrant women activists were less likely to accept a purely gender-based analysis than mainstream feminists. They often sought to work with men in their own communities, even in dealing with violence against women. And issues of violence and of reproductive rights often could not be understood only within the boundaries of Canada. For immigrant women violence against women was often analyzed in relation to political violence in their homelands, while demands for fully realized reproductive rights drew on experiences of coercion both in Canada and transnationally.

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“…In Nadasen's convincing telling, low-income black women were the originators of a robust construction of reproductive rights that attracted a broad-based feminist coalition. 102 By including lowincome women's activism around welfare rights and other issues, Anne Valk's study of feminism and black liberation in Washington, DC, likewise demonstrated working-class women's pivotal role in shaping reproductive rights and anti-violence politics. 103 Studies of working-class women's battles for social rights also played a crucial role in historians' reassessment of the Black Freedom Struggle, captured in Jacquelyn Dowd Hall's seminal article "The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past."…”

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PROTECTING SOLDIERS AND MOTHERSTWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER: THEDA SKOCPOL'S LEGACY AND AMERICAN WELFARE STATE HISTORIOGRAPHY, 1992–2017

Chappell¹

2018

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This essay examines Theda Skocpol's landmark 1992 book,Protecting Soldiers and Mothers, and discusses its influence historians of the U.S. welfare state. The first section summarizes the book's “state-centered” approach and its central arguments and discusses its reception. It pays particular attention to critiques from women's and gender historians, who challenged Skocpol's characterization of Progressive Era “maternalist reform” particularly for its failure to account for racial politics or the limitations of rooting women's claims to social citizenship in mothering. The second section explores Skocpol's influence on historians of the U.S. welfare state in the past twenty-five years. Scholars of women and gender followed Skocpol's call to “bring the state back in,” bringing the insights of two decades of social and cultural history to the arena of state-building. In the process, they illuminated the centrality of race and racial politics to American social policy and citizenship in ways that Skocpol largely elided. Skocpol's discovery of the peculiar forms of American social provision also profoundly influenced welfare state scholars, who uncovered the vast reach of the “hidden” or “submerged state” in shaping unequal citizenship and political identities around race, gender, sexuality, and other axes of difference. Finally, the essay discusses historians’ attention to an aspect largely absent fromProtecting Soldiers and Mothers—the voices, perspectives, and actions of participants in welfare state programs and policies—which has deepened and expanded understanding of the processes and effects of welfare state-building in the past twenty-five years.

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Expanding the Boundaries of the Women's Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights

Cited by 40 publications

References 17 publications

Collective parent action: A review of motivations, experiences, and social transformations

Collective parent action: A review of motivations, experiences, and social transformations

Family Matters: Immigrant Women’s Activism in Ontario and British Columbia, 1960s -1980s

PROTECTING SOLDIERS AND MOTHERSTWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER: THEDA SKOCPOL'S LEGACY AND AMERICAN WELFARE STATE HISTORIOGRAPHY, 1992–2017

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