How Movements Win: Gendered Opportunity Structures and U.S. Women's Suffrage Movements, 1866 to 1919
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- 1 February 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in American Sociological Review
- Vol. 66 (1) , 49-70
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2657393
Abstract
State women's suffrage movements are investigated to illuminate the circumstances in which social movements bring about political change. In 29 states, suffragists were able to win significant voting rights prior to passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. In addition to resource mobilization, cultural framing, and political opportunity structures, the authors theorize that gendered opportunities also fostered the successes of the movements. An event history analysis provides evidence that gendered opportunity structures helped to bring about the political successes of the suffragists. Results suggest the need for a broader understanding of opportunity structure than one rooted simply in formal political opportunities.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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