In Keeping with Family Tradition
American Second-Wave Feminists and the Social Construction of Political Legacies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12875266 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Johanna E Foster (0000-0003-2831-9083, Monmouth University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-28 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Sociology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1733-8077 • E-ISSN: 1733-8077 |
| Publisher | University of Lodz Press (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.18778/1733-8077.14.1.01 |
| OpenAlex | W2951478379 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
Through an interpretive lens that borrows from feminist postmodernist perspectives on identity and cognitive sociology, the manuscript utilizes in-depth interview data from 33 women active in the American second-wave feminist movement to explore how aging feminist activists construct their current political identities in relation to the meanings they give to the perceived progressive political identities and actions of their elders. In particular, this study examines the discursive strategies that respondents engage as they link their own feminist consciousness directly or indirectly to feminist, or otherwise progressive, parents and grandparents. Findings reveal three distinct political legacy narratives, namely 1) explicit transmission origin stories; 2) bridge narratives; and 3) paradox plots that add to both the social movement literature on the symbolic dimensions of recruitment, sustainability, and spillover, as well as cognitive sociological literature on the cultural transmission of political capital, in general, and to our understanding of American second-wave activists, more specifically
Aesthetics · Feminism · Framing (construction · Identity (music · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Discipline and Punish
The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
Gender Trouble
Who's Afraid of Third Wave Feminism
V. Motherhood and Political Involvement
Women of a certain age
Motherhood and the Construction of Feminist Identities
The Influence of Family Political Discussion on Youth Civic Development
On the Relative Influence of Mothers and Fathers
Gender and Power
Evidence of the Long-Term Persistence of Adults' Political Predispositions
Family Traditions, Political Periods, and the Development of Partisan Orientations
The Perceptual Pathway
From Top-Down to Trickle-Up Influence
Who Are Feminists and What Do They Believe? The Role of Generations
Accounting for the Child in the Transmission of Party Identification
Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma
Political Generations and the Contemporary Women's Movement
Celebration and Suppression
Recruitment to High-Risk Activism
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |