Sex Roles in Social Movements: A Case Study of the Tenant Movement in New York City

Ronald Lawson · Stephen E. Barton

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Many recent studies have documented the presence of sexism in American society, charted the oppressive impact of discrimination against women, and traced its sources.1So ubiquitous is sexism, and so pervasive the engines supporting it, that, ironically, its trace may be found even within movements for social justice.A literature is now developing that describes the part women have played in social movements and the sexism they encountered there.This is largely descriptive, focusing on the ideological interchange between party leadership and feminists.2This paper is a product of the Tenant Movement Study, an interdisciplinary research project supported by the Center for Metropolitan Studies of the National Institute of Mental Health and conducted through the Center for Policy Research.Focusing primarily on New York City, the study includes a systematic analysis of the contemporary tenant movement as well as a historical examination of organized tenant activity since 1890.The findings of the study are planned to appear in two volumes by Ronald Lawson and others tentatively titled From"Tenant Rebellion" to "Statewide Rent Control": The Evolution of the Tenant Movement in New York State, 1904-1979 and Rent Strikes and Tenant Take-overs: Tenant Activity and the Urban Housing Crisis in New York City.The authors wish to thank Jenna Weissman Joselit, Joseph Spencer, Jody Dworetzky, and John McLoughlin for their parts in collecting and providing historical data; Jo Curran for her help in preparing the survey data for analysis; and Candace Kim Edel for editing.We found the comments of Myra Marx Ferree, Wagner Thielens, Carol Mueller, and Maren Lockwood Carden especially helpful as we struggled to conceptualize the issues.However,

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