Over the past several decades, scholarship on women's movements, feminism, and the state has brought renewed attention to the study of protest politics by questioning its frontier with dominant institutions. This article takes this critique a step further by considering the institutional dimension of the state-movement intersection. Drawing on the French case, we argue that institutions that are formally devoted to women's rights inside the state (women's policy agencies) can operate as movement institutions—that is, as bureaucratic instances routinely engrained with a protest dimension—rather than being only a shelter for a network of insider activists. As such, they can provide a specific, institutional feminist socialization to their members; they can purvey, rather than only relay, feminist protest, and they can deploy institutional repertoires of protest, combining bureaucratic and movement dimensions. We conclude that the definition and boundaries of the women's movement need to be broadened to include bureaucratic sources of feminist protest.
Movement Institutions: The Bureaucratic Sources of Feminist Protest
Résumé
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Over the past several decades, scholarship on women's movements, feminism, and the state has brought renewed attention to the study of protest politics by questioning its frontier with dominant institutions. This article takes this critique a step further by considering the institutional dimension of the state-movement intersection. Drawing on the French case, we argue that institutions that are formally devoted to women's rights inside the state (women's policy agencies) can operate as movement institutions—that is, as bureaucratic instances routinely engrained with a protest dimension—rather than being only a shelter for a network of insider activists. As such, they can provide a specific, institutional feminist socialization to their members; they can purvey, rather than only relay, feminist protest, and they can deploy institutional repertoires of protest, combining bureaucratic and movement dimensions. We conclude that the definition and boundaries of the women's movement need to be broadened to include bureaucratic sources of feminist protest.
Auteur(s)
Laure Bereni1
, Anne Revillard2, 3
1
CMH -
Centre Maurice Halbwachs
( 20824 )
- 48 Boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris
- France
École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 8097 ( 441569 )
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Département de Sciences sociales ENS-PSL ( 1151924 )
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École normale supérieure - Paris ( 59704 )
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
2
LIEPP -
Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d'évaluation des politiques publiques (Sciences Po)
( 218465 )
- LIEPP - Sciences Po
27, rue Saint-Guillaume
75337 Paris Cedex 07
- France
Sciences Po ( 301587 )
3
OSC -
Observatoire sociologique du changement (Sciences Po, CNRS)
( 1010 )
- 27, rue Saint-Guillaume
75337 Paris Cedex 07
- France
Sciences Po ( 301587 )
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR7049 ( 441569 )
Langue du document
Anglais
Nom de la revue
Politics and Gender
(ISSN : 1743-923X, ISSN électronique : 1743-9248)
Publié par Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Laure Bereni, Anne Revillard. Movement Institutions: The Bureaucratic Sources of Feminist Protest. Politics and Gender, 2018, 14 (3), pp.407-432. ⟨10.1017/S1743923X18000399⟩. ⟨halshs-02076392⟩