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The women’s cause in a field: rethinking the architecture of collective protest in the era of movement institutionalization

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ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of women’s cause field, which refers to the relational structure of groups mostly devoted to the advancement of women in a variety of social… Click to show full abstract

ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of women’s cause field, which refers to the relational structure of groups mostly devoted to the advancement of women in a variety of social settings, cutting across the line between civil society and political institutions. Unlike the women’s movement, the women’s cause field encompasses a set of both extra-institutional and intra-institutional mobilizing structures. This concept expands on scholarship on institutional activism, and on field and network theory. Beyond the case of the women’s movement, it provides a new framework – the notion of cause field – to capture the architecture of specialized collective protest in the era of movement institutionalization, distinct from, and complementary to, the concept of social movement.

Keywords: movement; women cause; field; protest era; cause field; collective protest

Journal Title: Social Movement Studies
Year Published: 2019

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