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Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance [Newsletter] (September 1995), Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance Sep 1995

Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance [Newsletter] (September 1995), Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance

Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance (1987, 1991-1995)

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Nacs 22nd Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Mar 1995

Nacs 22nd Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Expanding RAZA World Views: Sexuality and Regionalism
March 29-April 1, 1995
Northern Aztlan


Latina Women And Political Leadership: Implications For Latino Community Empowerment, Carol Hardy-Fanta Mar 1995

Latina Women And Political Leadership: Implications For Latino Community Empowerment, Carol Hardy-Fanta

New England Journal of Public Policy

Mainstream studies of Latino politics have tended to reflect a primarily male view of political participation and political leadership. In such a view, the study of Latino political leadership continues the tradition of viewing leadership as derived from official positions in elected or appointed office and informal organizations. This article demonstrates that (1) contrary to prevailing myths, Latina women in Massachusetts run for and are elected to office in very high numbers, and (2) when the definition of political leadership is expanded to include community-based, not solely position-derived, forms of leadership, Latino community empowerment may depend, to a great extent, …


News As A Political Resource: Media Strategies And Political Identity In The U.S. Women's Movement, 1966-1975, Bernadette Barker-Plummer Jan 1995

News As A Political Resource: Media Strategies And Political Identity In The U.S. Women's Movement, 1966-1975, Bernadette Barker-Plummer

Media Studies

This paper discusses news as a political resource for social movements. Specifically, the paper elaborates a conceptualization of news as a discursive resource, and suggests a dialogical model for media‐movement relationships. The paper then uses this framework to investigate the interactions with news media of U.S. women's movement groups. It describes how the two “branches” of the women's movement understood news differently and developed quite different and specific strategies which are called media pragmatism and media subversion. The study raises questions not only about what kind of resource news might be, and to whom it might be available, but also …