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6 - Mobilization and Intersectional Advocacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2024

Margaret Perez Brower
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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At a time in U.S. politics when advocacy groups are increasingly relying on supporters to help advance their agendas, this chapter considers how intersectional advocates are mobilizing their supporters in Chapter 6. While membership in women’s advocacy organizations has decreased over the years, supporters that volunteer their time to advocacy organizations to advance their policy goals has been largely overlooked. Yet, these supporters are important contributors to intersectional advocacy. In Chapter 6, two original survey experiments are presented with the supporters from this organization that also engages in intersectional advocacy. Each experiment contain authentic policy platforms that either present an intersectional advocacy approach or a traditional single issue policy approach to supporters. The findings from these experiments answer the final question: does intersectional advocacy resonate with the intersectionally marginalized populations it aims to serve, and if so, to what extent does it mobilize them to participate in the policymaking process? This chapter highlights the role of supporters in advancing these policy efforts while showcasing tangible

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Intersectional Advocacy
Redrawing Policy Boundaries Around Gender, Race, and Class
, pp. 179 - 209
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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