Identity Work in Social Movements   Jo Reger, Daniel J. Myers, and Rachel L. Einwohner, editors Table of Contents		$25.00 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5140-5 $75.00 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5139-9
Examines how sameness and difference are negotiated within social movements. Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social movements is one of the central concerns in the field. This volume offers new scholarship that explores issues of diversity and uniformity among social movement participants. Featuring case studies that range widely—from Jewish resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Poland to antigay Christian movements in the United States to online white supremacy groups—the essays show how participants set aside issues of personal identity in order to merge together and how these processes affect mobilization and the attainment of goals. Contributors: Mary Bernstein, Kimberly B. Dugan, Elizabeth Kaminski, Susan Munkres, Kevin Neuhouser, Benita Roth, Silke Roth, Todd Schroer, Verta Taylor, Jane Ward. Jo Reger is associate professor of sociology at Oakland University in Michigan. Daniel J. Myers is professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Rachel L. Einwohner is associate professor of sociology at Purdue University. 312 pages | 4 b&w photos, 3 tables | 6 x 9 | 2008 Social Movments, Protest, and Contention Series, volume 30 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: Identity Work, Sameness, and Difference in Social Movements Rachel L. Einwohner, Jo Reger, and Daniel J. Myers I. Doing Identity Work  1. Just Like You: The Dimensions of Identity Presentations in an Antigay Contested Context Kimberly B. Dugan 2. We’re Not Just Lip-Synching Up Here: Music and Collective Identity in Drag Performances Elizabeth Kaminski and Verta Taylor 3. Technical Advances in Communication: The Example of White Racialist “Love Groups” and “White Civil Rights Organizations” Todd Schroer 4. Drawing Identity Boundaries: The Creation of Contemporary Feminism Jo Reger 5. Passing as Strategic Identity Work in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rachel L. Einwohner 6. I Am the Man and Woman in This House: Brazilian Jeito and the Strategic Framing of Motherhood in a Poor, Urban Community Kevin Neuhouser II. Working through Identities 7. Ally Identity: The Politically Gay Daniel J. Myers 8. Being “Sisters” to Salvadoran Peasants: Deep Identification and Its Limitations Susan Munkres 9. Dealing with Diversity: The Coalition of Labor Union Women Silke Roth 10. Diversity Discourse and Multi-Identity Work in Lesbian and Gay Organizations Jane Ward 11. The Reconstruction of Collective Identity in the Emergence of U.S. White Women’s Liberation Benita Roth Afterword. The Analytic Dimensions of Identity: A Political Identity Framework Mary Bernstein Contributors Index