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- Title
Organizational “Emotion Work” Through Consciousness-Raising: An Analysis of a Feminist Organization.
- Authors
Reger, Jo
- Abstract
In this article I explore how organizational processes link to certain emotional responses, as a way of investigating more fully the role emotions play in social movements. Through the construction of a case study of a feminist group, the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women (NYC NOW), I analyze how certain emotions, such as anger, alienation, hopelessness and frustration, are redefined within an organizational context. I find that consciousness-raising serves as the organizational process that helps transform personal emotions into a collectively defined sense of injustice. This transformation has the potential of creating actors dedicated to chapter activism.
- Subjects
NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States; SOCIAL movements; SOCIAL psychology; FEMINIST theory; EMOTIONS
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2004, Vol 27, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/B:QUAS.0000020693.93609.6c