Lynn Kamenitsa
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn Kamenitsa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamenitsa |
| SIGNATURE | KAMENITSA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Friends Can Make the Party
Post-Communist Obstacles to Mobilizing Women in Eastern Germany
The East German women’s movement, which showed much promise in late 1989, was lost in the transition from communism. Would-be women’s rights activists have been told the same thing they were told during the transition to communism: women’s issues have to wait until the new system has been consolidated
The Complexity of Decline
The case of the East German women's movement is used to examine a understudied and undertheorized area of social movement research, movement decline. The political marginalization of this movement in 1990, only a few months after its promising beginning, can best be explained by integrating three fundamental concepts in social movement theory: political opportunity, mobilizing structures, and framing processes. Based on the analysis of movement d…
The Process of Political Marginalization
the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) provides a particularly interesting case. For a brief period in the autumn of 1989, it looked as though the newly formed citizens' movements, the Burgerbewegungen, as spokespersons for the people, would negotiate the terms of the transition to democracy and eventually assume the reins of political leadership. In the GDR, however, the opposition groups did not meet with the same political and electoral s…
East German Feminists in the New German Democracy
This article describes the contemporary women's movement in eastern Germany and assesses its ability to adapt to the political opportunity structure of post-unification Germany. The configuration of feminist groups is categorized into three distinct components, and the success of each component in adapting its political goals and strategies to the new political system is analyzed. Successful adaptation is found to be determined in part by the str…
East German feminists in the New German democracy
The Process of Political Marginalization
the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) provides a particularly interesting case. For a brief period in the autumn of 1989, it looked as though the newly formed citizens' movements, the Burgerbewegungen, as spokespersons for the people, would negotiate the terms of the transition to democracy and eventually assume the reins of political leadership. In the GDR, however, the opposition groups did not meet with the same political and electoral s…
East German Feminists in the New German Democracy
This article describes the contemporary women's movement in eastern Germany and assesses its ability to adapt to the political opportunity structure of post-unification Germany. The configuration of feminist groups is categorized into three distinct components, and the success of each component in adapting its political goals and strategies to the new political system is analyzed. Successful adaptation is found to be determined in part by the str…
East German feminists in the New German democracy
East German Feminists in the New German Democracy
This article describes the contemporary women's movement in eastern Germany and assesses its ability to adapt to the political opportunity structure of post-unification Germany. The configuration of feminist groups is categorized into three distinct components, and the success of each component in adapting its political goals and strategies to the new political system is analyzed. Successful adaptation is found to be determined in part by the str…
East German feminists in the New German democracy
Post-Communist Obstacles to Mobilizing Women in Eastern Germany
The East German women’s movement, which showed much promise in late 1989, was lost in the transition from communism. Would-be women’s rights activists have been told the same thing they were told during the transition to communism: women’s issues have to wait until the new system has been consolidated
The Complexity of Decline
The case of the East German women's movement is used to examine a understudied and undertheorized area of social movement research, movement decline. The political marginalization of this movement in 1990, only a few months after its promising beginning, can best be explained by integrating three fundamental concepts in social movement theory: political opportunity, mobilizing structures, and framing processes. Based on the analysis of movement d…
The Process of Political Marginalization
the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) provides a particularly interesting case. For a brief period in the autumn of 1989, it looked as though the newly formed citizens' movements, the Burgerbewegungen, as spokespersons for the people, would negotiate the terms of the transition to democracy and eventually assume the reins of political leadership. In the GDR, however, the opposition groups did not meet with the same political and electoral s…
How Friends Can Make the Party
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · German (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (3 works) · European history and politics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)