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Authors: Jo Reger
ISBN-13: 9780816651405, ISBN-10: 081665140X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date Published: August 2008
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Jo Reger

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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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