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4
Ibid. Other reflections of this primary focus on the nation-state include Lee Ann
Banaszak, Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht, eds., Women’s Movements Facing
the Reconfigured State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Sylvia
Bashevkin, Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998); and Sylvia Bashevkin, Welfare Hot
Buttons: Women, Work and Social Policy Reform (Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2002).
5
The few book-length studies of women’s mobilization at the local level include
Janet A. Flammang, Women’s Political Voice: How Women are Transforming the
Practice and Study of Politics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997);
Judith Adler Hellman, Journeys Among Women: Feminism in Five Italian Cities
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1987); Fiona Mackay, Love and Politics:
Women Politicians and the Ethics of Care (London: Continuum, 2001); and Raka
Ray, Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India (Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1999).
6
On the first two patterns, see Lee Ann Banaszak, Karen Beckwith and Dieter
Rucht, “When Power Relocates: Interactive Changes in Women’s Movements
and States,” in Banaszak et al., eds., Women’s Movements Facing the
Reconfigured State, 4-8. On the third phenomenon, see Donald J. Savoie,
Governing from the Centre: The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politics
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999).
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