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Women's Social Movements, Territorialism and Gender Transformation: A Case Study of South Africa

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Feminist scholars have usefully offered explanations for why women’s social movements emerge, but rarely have they explored why the goals of these movements often remain out of reach. Many theorists acknowledge that the formation and functioning of social movements inevitably entails exclusionary practices in light of the “collective identity” that is identified as underlying these movements. Through a detailed analysis of South Africa’s anti-gender violence movement, however, I demonstrate that multiple lines of “inclusion” and “exclusion” associated with women’s movements are evident. Extensive interviews with gender violence activists in South Africa confirmed that identity-based fracturing has occurred within the movement – most notably along the lines of ethnicity/race, class, and gender. But these interviews also revealed two lines of fracture that have been less scrutinized by feminists: (1) resource-based divisions, marked by competitiveness among movement activists; and (2) issue-based divisions, marked by the segmentation of manifestations of masculinism.

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Hebert, Laura. "Women's Social Movements, Territorialism and Gender Transformation: A Case Study of South Africa" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2008-12-12 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41242_index.html>

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Hebert, L. A. , 2005-09-01 "Women's Social Movements, Territorialism and Gender Transformation: A Case Study of South Africa" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2008-12-12 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41242_index.html

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Abstract: Feminist scholars have usefully offered explanations for why women’s social movements emerge, but rarely have they explored why the goals of these movements often remain out of reach. Many theorists acknowledge that the formation and functioning of social movements inevitably entails exclusionary practices in light of the “collective identity” that is identified as underlying these movements. Through a detailed analysis of South Africa’s anti-gender violence movement, however, I demonstrate that multiple lines of “inclusion” and “exclusion” associated with women’s movements are evident. Extensive interviews with gender violence activists in South Africa confirmed that identity-based fracturing has occurred within the movement – most notably along the lines of ethnicity/race, class, and gender. But these interviews also revealed two lines of fracture that have been less scrutinized by feminists: (1) resource-based divisions, marked by competitiveness among movement activists; and (2) issue-based divisions, marked by the segmentation of manifestations of masculinism.

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Women’s Social Movements Territorialism & Gender Transformation: A Case Study of South Africa Laura A. Hebert Assistant Professor Diplomacy & World Affairs Occidental College Abstract Feminist scholars have usefully offered explanations for why women’s social movements emerge but rarely have they explored why the goals of these movements often remain out of reach. Many theorists acknowledge that the formation and functioning of social movements inevitably entails exclusionary practices in light of the “collective identity” that is identified as underlying
40 http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/democracy_and_governance/regions/afr/674-001.pdf Vetten Lisa and Zohra Khan. “‘We’re Doing their Work for Them:’ An Investigation into Government Support to Non-Profit Organizations Providing Services to Women Experiencing Gender Violence.” Johannesburg: Center for the Study of Violence & Reconciliation 2002. Whittier Nancy. “Sustaining Commitment Among Radical Feminists.” In Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper eds. The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing 2003: 103-115. Worden Nigel. The Making of Modern South Africa. 2nd ed. Cambridge Blackwell 1995.


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