Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-383) and index.
Reconstructing social protest from a feminist perspective / Guida West and Rhoda Lois Blumberg -- Sex roles in social movements : a case study of the tenant movement in New York City / Ronald Lawson and Stephen E. Barton -- Women in the welfare rights struggle : the Brooklyn Welfare Action Council / Jackie Pope -- Gender contested : women's participation in the Brookside coal strike / Sally Ward Maggard -- Women and European socialist protest, 1871-1921 / Marie Marmo Mullaney -- Women in the Taiping movement in nineteenth-century China / Tim Futing Liao -- The women workers' movement : first-wave feminism in pre-state Israel / Dafna N. Izraeli -- "Men led, but women organized" : movement participation of women in the Mississippi Delta / Charles Payne.
The continuity of the American women's movement : an elite-sustained stage / Verta Taylor -- Social change and social activism : first-wave women's movements around the world / Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Anthony Gary Dworkin, and Stephanie Swanson -- The invisible army of women : lesbian social protests, 1969-1988 / Susan Cavin -- Dance, protest, and womens's "wars" : cases from Nigeria and the United States / Judith Lynne Hanna.
White mothers as civil rights activists : the interweave of family and movement roles / Rhoda Lois Blumberg -- Women in revolutionary movements : changing patterns of Latin American guerrilla struggle / Linda Lobao -- Mothers on the march : maternalism in women's protest for peace in North America and Western Europe, 1900-1985 / Carolyn Strange -- Women in the West German Green Party : the uneasy alliance of ecology and feminism / Carol Schmid -- Female-dominated local social movement organizations in disaster-threat situations / David M. Neal and Brenda D. Phillips -- The struggle over women's education in the nineteenth century : a social movement and countermovement / Virginia Kemp Fish.