Benita Roth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benita Roth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benita |
| FAMILY NAME | Roth |
| SIGNATURE | ROTH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Deborah Gray White. Lost in the USA
There is no social-movement tactic so fraught as that of the large-scale march, especially if it is set in the nation’s capital of Washington, D.C. In Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March, Deborah Gray White traces the experiences of Americans who participated in large-scale marches in the 1990s, chiefly on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. She looks at the 1997 Stand in the Gap gathering of the…
Learning from the Tea Party
In this article, I chart the origins of the Indivisible movement in the United States, which began online as a response to the election of Donald Trump to the presidency in November of 2016. The Indivisible movement's founders explicitly modeled their countermovement structurally after the Republican Tea Party that arose to obstruct Obama's agenda, consciously using the Tea Party's combination of decentralized organizing made possible by the Inte…
The Macrosociology of Paid Domestic Labor
This chapter examines the importance of growing class inequality as a driver of employment growth in paid domestic labor by drawing on macrosociological, rather than microsociological, literature. More specifically, it considers what explains variation in the proportion of the labor force employed in paid domestic labor over time and space. After comparing the microsociology of paid domestic labor with the modernization theory and the macrosociol…
Women in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement
This chapter explores the history of women’s participation in the LGBT movement, from the homophile phase in the 1950s–1960s through gay liberation, lesbian feminism, anti-AIDS activism in the 1980s–1990s, to contemporary queer activism and the marriage equality movement. The chapter points to shifts in women’s participation, ranging from fighting for women’s issues within male-dominated organizations to creating separatist groups to collaboratin…
The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA
The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA explores the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Los Angeles, part of the militant anti-AIDS movement of the 1980s and 1990s. ACT UP/LA battled government, medical, and institutional neglect of the AIDS epidemic, engaging in multi-targeted protest in Los Angeles and nationally. The book shows how appealing the direct action anti-AIDS activism was for people across the United States; as well as arguing t…
Connexions
This timely collection of essays focuses on the nexus of race and sexuality in explorations of American history. The editors—Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, and Jennifer L. Morgan—play with the spelling of the word connection, arguing that since the late eighteenth century, the “x” in the alternate spelling pointed toward the presence of illicit sexual and racial relations. The “x” signifies an intersection, and the editors and contributors take an in…
Real Housewives with Real Problems
Making Their Place
The Making of Pro-life Activists
Latina Activists across Borders
A Dialogical View of the Emergence of Chicana Feminist Discourse1
I argue that a convergent dialogical approach to the understanding of social movement discourse drawn from sociology and feminist studies is best suited for understanding challenges made by dissenters within social movements. I analyze 'second wave' Chicana feminism which arose in the 1960s and 1970s. I first discuss two dialogical approaches in social movement and feminist theory to understand the strategies that challengers within already oppos…
Thinking about challenges to feminist activism in extra-feminist settings
In this article I consider the opportunities and constraints faced by feminists organizing in extra-feminist settings. Women remain systematically disadvantaged vis-à-vis men, and feminists both express this disadvantage and the need for remedying it by activism in extra-feminist settings. Organizing by feminists in these settings generates contradictions, such that the advantages gained by feminist organizing are undercut by constraints. I use c…
Separate Roads to Feminism
This examines the emergence of feminist movements from the Civil Rights/Black Liberation movement, the Chicano movement, and the white left in the 1960s and 1970s. The author argues that the 'second wave' was comprised of feminisms: organizationally distinct movements that influenced each other in complex ways. The making of second wave feminisms resulted from decisions that feminists made about their political choices given constraints that affe…
Feminist Boundaries in the Feminist-Friendly Organization
In this article, I argue that members of the Women's Caucus (WC) of ACT UP/LA (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) formed a boundary between themselves and male members to increase the WC's power within the feminist-friendly organization. The WC's boundary-making strategies-formalizing women's space and reinscribing gender difference-combatted 'slippage' of ACT UP/LA's focus away from women's issues precipated by men's greater numbers in the group. …
The Macrosociology of Paid Domestic Labor
This article poses the question: What explains variation in the proportion of the labor force employed in paid domestic labor? In contrast to an older, modernization-theory-based literature that argued that paid domestic labor declines and ultimately disappears in the course of economic development, the authors note the occupation's recent expansion in southern California and the wide variations among rich, developed countries in the proportion o…
The Macrosociology of Paid Domestic Labor
This article poses the question: What explains variation in the proportion of the labor force employed in paid domestic labor? In contrast to an older, modernization-theory-based literature that argued that paid domestic labor declines and ultimately disappears in the course of economic development, the authors note the occupation's recent expansion in southern California and the wide variations among rich, developed countries in the proportion o…
Thinking about challenges to feminist activism in extra-feminist settings
In this article I consider the opportunities and constraints faced by feminists organizing in extra-feminist settings. Women remain systematically disadvantaged vis-à-vis men, and feminists both express this disadvantage and the need for remedying it by activism in extra-feminist settings. Organizing by feminists in these settings generates contradictions, such that the advantages gained by feminist organizing are undercut by constraints. I use c…
Feminist Boundaries in the Feminist-Friendly Organization
In this article, I argue that members of the Women's Caucus (WC) of ACT UP/LA (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) formed a boundary between themselves and male members to increase the WC's power within the feminist-friendly organization. The WC's boundary-making strategies-formalizing women's space and reinscribing gender difference-combatted 'slippage' of ACT UP/LA's focus away from women's issues precipated by men's greater numbers in the group. …
The Making of Pro-life Activists
Learning from the Tea Party
In this article, I chart the origins of the Indivisible movement in the United States, which began online as a response to the election of Donald Trump to the presidency in November of 2016. The Indivisible movement's founders explicitly modeled their countermovement structurally after the Republican Tea Party that arose to obstruct Obama's agenda, consciously using the Tea Party's combination of decentralized organizing made possible by the Inte…
Making Their Place
A Dialogical View of the Emergence of Chicana Feminist Discourse1
I argue that a convergent dialogical approach to the understanding of social movement discourse drawn from sociology and feminist studies is best suited for understanding challenges made by dissenters within social movements. I analyze 'second wave' Chicana feminism which arose in the 1960s and 1970s. I first discuss two dialogical approaches in social movement and feminist theory to understand the strategies that challengers within already oppos…
Feminist Boundaries in the Feminist-Friendly Organization
In this article, I argue that members of the Women's Caucus (WC) of ACT UP/LA (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) formed a boundary between themselves and male members to increase the WC's power within the feminist-friendly organization. The WC's boundary-making strategies-formalizing women's space and reinscribing gender difference-combatted 'slippage' of ACT UP/LA's focus away from women's issues precipated by men's greater numbers in the group. …
The Macrosociology of Paid Domestic Labor
This article poses the question: What explains variation in the proportion of the labor force employed in paid domestic labor? In contrast to an older, modernization-theory-based literature that argued that paid domestic labor declines and ultimately disappears in the course of economic development, the authors note the occupation's recent expansion in southern California and the wide variations among rich, developed countries in the proportion o…
Separate Roads to Feminism
This examines the emergence of feminist movements from the Civil Rights/Black Liberation movement, the Chicano movement, and the white left in the 1960s and 1970s. The author argues that the 'second wave' was comprised of feminisms: organizationally distinct movements that influenced each other in complex ways. The making of second wave feminisms resulted from decisions that feminists made about their political choices given constraints that affe…
Thinking about challenges to feminist activism in extra-feminist settings
In this article I consider the opportunities and constraints faced by feminists organizing in extra-feminist settings. Women remain systematically disadvantaged vis-à-vis men, and feminists both express this disadvantage and the need for remedying it by activism in extra-feminist settings. Organizing by feminists in these settings generates contradictions, such that the advantages gained by feminist organizing are undercut by constraints. I use c…
A Dialogical View of the Emergence of Chicana Feminist Discourse1
I argue that a convergent dialogical approach to the understanding of social movement discourse drawn from sociology and feminist studies is best suited for understanding challenges made by dissenters within social movements. I analyze 'second wave' Chicana feminism which arose in the 1960s and 1970s. I first discuss two dialogical approaches in social movement and feminist theory to understand the strategies that challengers within already oppos…
Latina Activists across Borders
The Making of Pro-life Activists
Making Their Place
Real Housewives with Real Problems
The Macrosociology of Paid Domestic Labor
This chapter examines the importance of growing class inequality as a driver of employment growth in paid domestic labor by drawing on macrosociological, rather than microsociological, literature. More specifically, it considers what explains variation in the proportion of the labor force employed in paid domestic labor over time and space. After comparing the microsociology of paid domestic labor with the modernization theory and the macrosociol…
Women in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement
This chapter explores the history of women’s participation in the LGBT movement, from the homophile phase in the 1950s–1960s through gay liberation, lesbian feminism, anti-AIDS activism in the 1980s–1990s, to contemporary queer activism and the marriage equality movement. The chapter points to shifts in women’s participation, ranging from fighting for women’s issues within male-dominated organizations to creating separatist groups to collaboratin…
The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA
The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA explores the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Los Angeles, part of the militant anti-AIDS movement of the 1980s and 1990s. ACT UP/LA battled government, medical, and institutional neglect of the AIDS epidemic, engaging in multi-targeted protest in Los Angeles and nationally. The book shows how appealing the direct action anti-AIDS activism was for people across the United States; as well as arguing t…
Connexions
This timely collection of essays focuses on the nexus of race and sexuality in explorations of American history. The editors—Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, and Jennifer L. Morgan—play with the spelling of the word connection, arguing that since the late eighteenth century, the “x” in the alternate spelling pointed toward the presence of illicit sexual and racial relations. The “x” signifies an intersection, and the editors and contributors take an in…
Deborah Gray White. Lost in the USA
There is no social-movement tactic so fraught as that of the large-scale march, especially if it is set in the nation’s capital of Washington, D.C. In Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March, Deborah Gray White traces the experiences of Americans who participated in large-scale marches in the 1990s, chiefly on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. She looks at the 1997 Stand in the Gap gathering of the…
Learning from the Tea Party
In this article, I chart the origins of the Indivisible movement in the United States, which began online as a response to the election of Donald Trump to the presidency in November of 2016. The Indivisible movement's founders explicitly modeled their countermovement structurally after the Republican Tea Party that arose to obstruct Obama's agenda, consciously using the Tea Party's combination of decentralized organizing made possible by the Inte…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Social movement (6 works) · Feminism (4 works) · Feminist movement (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)