Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-201) and index.

1. People in movements: when movements focus on single-gender concerns
2. Gender in movements: what happens in multi-gender movements
3. Coming to the movement: how gender influences pathways to activism
4. Guiding social change: when gender shapes movement trajectories
5. Legacies of rise and resistance: how gender sparks change and backlash

In Gender and Social Movements, Jo Reger takes a comprehensive look at the ways in which people organize around gender issues and how gender shapes social movements. Here gender is more than an individual quality, it is a part of the very foundation of social movements, shaping how they recruit, mobilize and articulate their strategies, tactics and identities. Moving past the gender binary, Reger explores how movements can shift understandings of gender and how backlash and counter movements can often follow gendered movement successes. Adopting both an intersectional and global lens, the book introduces readers to the idea that gender as a form of societal power is integral in all efforts for social change. Provided by publisher.

In English.