Authors: Jo Reger
ISBN-13: 9780816651405, ISBN-10: 081665140X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date Published: August 2008
Edition: New Edition
Author Biography: Jo Reger
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Identity Work, Sameness, and Difference in Social Movements Rachel L. Einwohner Jo Reger Daniel J. Myers 1
Doing Identity Work
Just Like You: The Dimensions of Identity Presentations in an Antigay Contested Context Kimberly B. Dugan 21
"We're Not Just Lip-synching Up Here": Music and Collective Identity in Drag Performances Elizabeth Kaminski Verta Taylor 47
Technical Advances in Communication: The Example of White Racialist "Love Groups" and "White Civil Rights Organizations" Todd Schroer 77
Drawing Identity Boundaries: The Creation of Contemporary Feminism Jo Roger 101
Passing as Strategic Identity Work in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rachel L. Einwohner 121
I Am the Man and Woman in This House: Brazilian Jeito and the Strategic Framing of Motherhood in a Poor, Urban Community Kevin Neuhouser 141
Working through Identities
Ally Identity: The Politically Gay Daniel J. Myers 167
Being "Sisters" to Salvadoran Peasants: Deep Identification and Its Limitations Susan Munkres 189
Dealing with Diversity: The Coalition of Labor Union Women Silke Roth 213
Diversity Discourse and Multi-identity Work in Lesbian and Gay Organizations Jane Ward 233
The Reconstruction of Collective Identity in the Emergence of U.S. White Women's Liberation Benita Roth 257
Afterword: The Analytic Dimensions of Identity: A Political Identity Framework Mary Bernstein 277
Contributors 303
Index 309
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