Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History.

Cott, Nancy F.; Scott, Anne Firor

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“…Our ongoing research on school reform movements in the North and South at the turn of the century indicates that leveraging politics was crucial for other public educational policy developments. For example, throughout the country, women's clubs and other civic groups used private funds to establish free kindergartens inside public schools, leading to the widespread incorporation of free kindergartens as a state responsibility (Reese 1986;Scott 1991;Thomas 1992). Settlement houses often inaugurated new programs that were later taken over by the public schools, such as adult education classes and vacation schools; they also raised funds for playgrounds established directly within the public sector (Davis 1967;Woods andKennedy [1911] 1970).…”

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Leveraging the State: Private Money and the Development of Public Education for Blacks

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This study analyses African Americans’ success in getting the state to improve access to a basic social right—the right to a public education—in the late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century South. During this period, Southern blacks were deprived of the right to vote and many of their civil rights. We find that the loss of political and civil rights influenced the means that blacks could use to affect policy, and it limited the policy objectives they could achieve; but it did not render them unable to affect policy. After disfranchisement, black communities, in an alliance with Northern philanthropists, modified and vastly extended a strategy we call “leveraging the state “—a strategy that had been used successfully by both black communities and white communities in the nineteenth century to increase access to public elementary education. This strategy involved using private funds in combination with partial public funding to directly establish new public schools and then negotiating a state commitment to ongoing support of the new public schools. Such a strategy cannot secure political or civil rights, but it can and did secure social rights—although at a high financial price for the challengers and their allies.

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“…It has legitimized the struggles to incorporate equality between men and women into the participatory agenda (eg. Burns, Schlozman & Verba, 2001;Taylor &Whittier, 1998;Scott, 1992). Despite the fact that CSOs are often presented as one of the most important vectors for civic participation, social cohesion and local development (Putnam, 1993), barring rare exceptions the issues of power and inequality in the logics operating at their core have failed to attract significant sociological attention (Flahault & Guardiola, 2009;Fillieule & Roux, 2009).…”

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Does gender matter within the Tunisian civil society organizations following the "Arab Spring"? The division of labor and responsibilities among young activists

Desrues¹,

Arranz

Bour³

2022

GENEROS

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This article explores the gender dimension of young people participation in Tunisian civil society organizations (CSOs) that emerged largely after the 2011 "revolution". The main aims are, first, to provide information on the Tunisian context; second, to characterize this new activism marked by a large participation of young women; and, third, to identify whether there are elements typical of a gender division of positions, responsibilities and activism work. The Tunisian case is very interesting because political transitions are crucial moments for women's rights and associations. Based on two surveys, we put forward the hypothesis that inequality between men and women in the allocation of responsibilities will increase or decrease depending on the degree of gender inequality in the possession of skills and resources (educational, linguistic, socio-economic) and previous experiences of associative socialization. After outlining the national context, we find that the profiles, resources and socialization of activists are relatively homogeneous. However, while women and men gain access to positions of responsibility with some equality via elections to the executive bodies of CSOs, male leadership prevails in ad hoc activities that grant greater individual public recognition and leadership.

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“…In doing so, we came upon the concept, "lady boards of managers," women who were founding and running most of these organizations (Netting & O'Connor, 2005). Further investigation indicated that this was a well-known concept in feminist historical literature (see, e.g., Scott, 1993) but totally absent from social work.…”

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Using Prosopography to Raise the Voices of Those Erased in Social Work History

Coles

Netting

O’Connor

2017

Affilia

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In this article, we introduce prosopography, a valuable historical research method that can be used by feminist social work scholars. While feminists in various fields use this methodology to investigate background characteristics of women in history through collective studies of how they have established relationships and networks to influence change, our review of the literature suggests that it has been little used in social work. We provide a brief overview of prosopography, strengths and limitations, and an illustration of the method as enacted focusing on the roles of early feminists within the development of nonprofit human service organizations. It is our intent to demonstrate the possibilities of prosopography to identify and understand groups of women who have been erased in social work history.

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Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History.

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Leveraging the State: Private Money and the Development of Public Education for Blacks

Leveraging the State: Private Money and the Development of Public Education for Blacks

Does gender matter within the Tunisian civil society organizations following the "Arab Spring"? The division of labor and responsibilities among young activists

Using Prosopography to Raise the Voices of Those Erased in Social Work History

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