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8 - Consciousness-Raising as the Ignition for Collective Action

from Part III - The Unraveling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

Soledad Artiz Prillaman
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Stanford University, California
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Chapter 8 demonstrates that such effects can be augmented by stimulating solidarity among women with a focus on gender consciousness-raising, but that such actions generate backlash. It tests the importance of social solidarity in stimulating women’s collective action by exploiting arbitrary variation in the delivery of a gender consciousness-raising program to SHGs. It shows that women are more likely to undertake collective action after identifying shared experiences of deprivation and forming a bond based on their gender identity. This collective action is also more likely to be aimed at women’s strategic interests – their interests rooted in their patriarchal suppression – and therefore garner more resistance from men in the community, including through increased experiences of (public) violence and harassment. It shows that women navigate this resistance through their collective strength and solidarity.

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The Patriarchal Political Order
The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India
, pp. 207 - 246
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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