Women and Social Protest

Bringing together eighteen thought-provoking articles-most of them written especially for this volume-Women and Social Protest addresses a long-neglected area in social history and politics showing how in recent years feminist social scientists have begun to reexamine women's involvement in social protest the innovative forms this protest takes and the impact of activism on women's lives. This timely and comprehensive anthology provides a much-needed forum for discussion of these topics and shows how the sociological and political literature has long ignored masked or distorted the political activities of women thus creating the stereotype of the 'apolitical woman.'