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SOCIAL MOVEMENT "SUCCESS":
THE BATTERED WOMEN'S MOVEMENT'S DISCOURSE
AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE. By Gretchen Arnold. Recent research in social movements has begun to examine the impact social movements have on their societies. Activists in the battered women's movement have understood their goal as both changing public attitudes about wife beating and getting social institutions to embody these new attitudes. This case study in St. Louis examines the movement's successes in changing public attitudes as reflected in public discourse, policies, and legislation, but its limits in forcing implementation of these laws and policies and their mixed benefits for battered women.
In this paper I describe three dominant interpretive frames for wife beating: the traditional patriarchal frame, the movement's feminist frame, and a family violence frame that treats domestic violence as a crime but does not embody a politicized understanding of patriarchy. Then I examine the interplay between these three frames and the local criminal justice system's accommodation and resistance to change. Analyzing the institutional and political opportunities and constraints, I argue that the family violence frame was more easily accepted by criminal justice personnel operating under budget, caseload, and political constraints. The adoption of this frame and its implementation in so-called "pro-arrest" laws has, in turn, had mixed benefits for battered women themselves. |
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| Arnold, Gretchen. "Social Movement 'Success': The Battered Women's Movement's Discourse and Institutional Change" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA,, Aug 14, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p109112_index.html> |
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| Arnold, G. W. , 2004-08-14 "Social Movement 'Success': The Battered Women's Movement's Discourse and Institutional Change" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA, Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p109112_index.html |
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Abstract: SOCIAL MOVEMENT "SUCCESS":
THE BATTERED WOMEN'S MOVEMENT'S DISCOURSE
AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE. By Gretchen Arnold. Recent research in social movements has begun to examine the impact social movements have on their societies. Activists in the battered women's movement have understood their goal as both changing public attitudes about wife beating and getting social institutions to embody these new attitudes. This case study in St. Louis examines the movement's successes in changing public attitudes as reflected in public discourse, policies, and legislation, but its limits in forcing implementation of these laws and policies and their mixed benefits for battered women.
In this paper I describe three dominant interpretive frames for wife beating: the traditional patriarchal frame, the movement's feminist frame, and a family violence frame that treats domestic violence as a crime but does not embody a politicized understanding of patriarchy. Then I examine the interplay between these three frames and the local criminal justice system's accommodation and resistance to change. Analyzing the institutional and political opportunities and constraints, I argue that the family violence frame was more easily accepted by criminal justice personnel operating under budget, caseload, and political constraints. The adoption of this frame and its implementation in so-called "pro-arrest" laws has, in turn, had mixed benefits for battered women themselves. |
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| 1 SOCIAL MOVEMENT “SUCCESS”: THE BATTERED WOMEN’S MOVEMENT’S DISCOURSE AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE by Gretchen Arnold In recent years social movement theorists have focused on discourse and framing practices as a key for understanding movement recruitment and mobilization (Snow et al 1986; Snow and Benford 1988) to describe what social movements do (Benford 1993) and to help explain why they have or have not been successful in achieving their goals (Gamson 1988; Snow and Benford 1992). Frame analysis would seem |
| Books. Schechter Susan. 1982. Women and Male Violence. The Visions and Struggles of the Battered Women’s Movement. Boston: South End Press 1982. Smith Barbara E. 1983. Non-stranger violence. The criminal court’s response. U.S. Department of Justice: National Institute of Justice. Stanko Elizabeth A. 1989. Missing the mark? Policing battering. In Women Policing and Male Violence: International Perspectives ed. Jalna Hanmer Jill Radford and Elizabeth A. Stanko 46-69. London and New York: Routledge. Vera Institute of Justice. 1981. Felony arrests. |
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