Social Class and Social Movements

Eidlin, Barry; Kerrissey, Jasmine

doi:10.1002/9781119168577.ch29

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“…In contrast to the growing literature on the gendering of social movements, studies of the intersections of class, race and gender in creating political identities and politics mobilizing are relatively neglected (Beckwith, 1998; Eidlin & Kerrissey, 2018). Scholars raise further questions in the literature about how feminist women's movements are, and in what ways.…”

Section: Gendering Social Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Working women demand peace and food”: Gender and class in the East London Federation of Suffragettes' food politics

Swan

Psarikidou

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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In this article, we foreground how gender, class and feminism underpin the aims and modes of mobilization of the food politics of a British first wave suffragette organization, the East London Federation of Suffragettes. Our discussion shows how upper and middle‐class suffragettes excluded working‐class women and marginalized their political gendered classed interests, raising questions about feminist cross‐class solidarities today. We focus on three of East London Federation of the Suffragettes quite different modes of mobilization: embodied protests, radical welfare community organizing and food protest writing, all of which foreground class politics. In discussing three quite distinct modes of mobilization, we highlight the rich package of strategies they created and the different classed identities and struggles in these. We show the diversity of gendered and classed social roles around which the women politicked, as workers, mothers, housewives and consumers. The historical focus enables us to “see” the activities and identifications over time to understand and map their range and dynamics. Moreover, suffragette politics have a “longtail” and continue to influence feminist politics and thinking, but the working‐class mobilizing and food politics have been much less recognized and yet offer potential insights for feminist activism, including the cost‐of‐living crisis today.

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Section: Gendering Social Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Working women demand peace and food”: Gender and class in the East London Federation of Suffragettes' food politics

Swan

Psarikidou

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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“…On the one hand, the first aspect refers to social class and, more generally, to the social bases of environmental movements and activism. Scholarship on social movements has examined the role of social class as an important structural component of movement participation (della Porta, 2015;Eder, 1993Eder, , 2013Kriesi, 1989; see Eidlin and Kerrissey, 2019, for a general discussion). The role of social class has been put at center stage in particular by new social movement theory.…”

Section: Part 4: Microstructural and Social Psychological Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%