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The Limits of Protest Event Data and Repertoires for the Analysis of Contemporary Feminism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2010

Paul Bagguley
Paul Bagguley
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University of Leeds
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Protest event analysis (PEA) and the related concept of repertoire of contention are widely used in the study of social movements. Are they appropriate for the study of feminist protest? I argue that conventional forms of protest event analysis may have significant limitations when applied to feminist protest. Unobtrusive or individualized forms of resistance and protest associated with feminism are difficult to measure through typical protest event data. Moreover, the concept of repertoires of contention retains within it a number of unwarranted gendered assumptions. Some flow from being too reliant upon protest event data. I suggest that repertoires may be gendered, that this is unacknowledged by those who use the concept, and that this has implications for its normative dimensions.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 2010 , pp. 616 - 622
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2010

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