The Women's Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet

This book offers both methodological and theoretical innovations in the study of social movements, and analyses how the trajectories of protest activity and institution-building fit together. Rich empirical study, together with focused research on discursive activism, blogging, popular culture and advocacy networks, provides an extraordinary resource, showing how women's movements can survive highs and lows and adapt in unexpected ways. Expert contributors explore the ways in which the movement is continuing to work its way through institutions, and persists within submerged networks, cultural production and in everyday living, sustaining itself on non-receptive political environments and maintaining a discursive feminist space for generations to come. Set in a transnational perspective, this book traces the legacies of the Australian women's movement to the present day in protest, non-government organisations, government organisations, popular culture, the Internet and SlutWalk.