Gender, Family and Social Movements

Suzanne Staggenborg received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1985. She taught at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana before joining the faculty at McGill University in Montreal, where she is currently an associate professor of sociology. Her work includes The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict (Oxford University Press, 1991) and a number of articles about abortion politics and social movements

The Interplay of Gender and Social Movements Gender, Family, and Social Change Social Movements and Feminist Consciousness Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Conflict over Equal Rights Abortion and Family Politics The Battle over Gay and Lesbian Rights The Contribution of Social Movements