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The Continuity of Social Movements

by Kate Calle on November 28, 2009

in Papers

Verta Taylor uses the continuity of the women’s movement from the 1940s to the 1960s in the Unites States to explain social movement abeyance in the article Social Movement Continuity: The Women’s Movement in Abeyance.  According to the author, “The term ‘abeyance’ depicts a holding process by which movements sustain themselves in nonreceptive political environments [...]