Is the Personal Really Political? : Strategic Conflict and the Women's Movement (1960-1978)

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2001
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Haverford College. Department of Political Science
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The question that I would like to pose is--under what conditions do social movements choose to pursue conventional or unconventional stratagems? This query is critical to our understanding of why social movements employ the strategies and tactics that they do. Not only does it better enable us to appreciate the conditions informing tactical decision-making, but it also empowers us to predict the course of action a certain movement might aspire to; if we understand the underlying factors influencing activist strategies we can then evaluate which of those factors are currently in operation and how they might therefore direct the movement. Furthermore, in understanding the circumstances surrounding strategy formation, and in assessing the accomplishments and deficiencies of certain tactics, our own success as social movement participants is magnified. I have chosen to explore the Women's Movement during the 1960's and 1970's as my case study.
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