Governing NOW : : Grassroots Activism in the National Organization for Women / / Maryann Barakso.

Boasting more than five hundred thousand contributing members and five hundred chapters nationwide, the National Organization for Women has been politically active for more than thirty-five years. In a book that offers tools for predicting the long-term viability of a range of organizations, Maryann...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2004
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 2 tables, 1 chart
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Governance Structures and Strategy Choice and Change in Membership Organizations
  • 2. Inventing NOW: Principles and Processes, 1966-1971
  • 3. NOW's Strategic Evolution
  • 4. Out of the Mainstream, into the Revolution?
  • 5. The ERA "Emergency"
  • 6. From the ERA Strategy to the Electoral Strategy
  • 7. The Clinton Years and Beyond
  • 8. Analyzing Grassroots Representation and Participation
  • Notes
  • NOW Documents Cited
  • Index