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Governing NOW: Grassroots Activism in the National Organization for Women. By Maryann Barakso. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2004. 192 pp. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2005

Christina Wolbrecht
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame

Extract

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is in many ways the archetypal social movement organization (SMO), and it is unquestionably the premier SMO of the second wave of the women's movement. The story of NOW's founding has been told and retold many times, in part because it seems to embody many of the factors that scholars tell us are crucial for social movement (and thus, SMO) emergence: political opportunity (among other things, the creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), communication networks (such as the U.S. and state-level Commissions on the Status of Women), patrons (e.g., organized labor), resources (via growing numbers of professional and working women), and so on.

Type
Book Reviews
Copyright
© 2005 The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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