TY  - CHAP
AB  - Since the 19th century, peace movements have consistently called on women to oppose war based on their roles as mothers and citizens. The women's rights and women's peace groups that participated in the anti-war movement of the 2000s continue this pattern drawing on both maternalist and egalitarian frames in their mobilizations. This chapter seeks to understand the forces that shape individual perceptions of the persuasiveness of these frames using face-to-face survey data collected at three 2004 demonstrations. The analyses show that different frames appeal to people with different levels of movement experience. The maternalism frame is negatively correlated with social movement experience and the egalitarian feminist frame is positively correlated. I extrapolate from this finding that that the maternalism frame may serve as a recruitment frame and that the egalitarian frame may serve as a retention frame. The conclusion theorizes that rather than thinking of women's groups that use different framing in oppositional contexts, it may be useful to think of the two sets of social movement organizations as working together in a symbiotic relationship that draws in new participants and maintains existing adherents through the use of distinctly different frames. This paper applies social movement framing theory in two unconventional ways: (1) it focuses on framing reception and the way that frames link individuals with organizations; (2) it encourages social movement scholars to think about the relationship between different frames within a broader movement and proposes an alternate conception of frame competition.
VL  - 32
SN  - 978-0-85724-913-5, 978-0-85724-914-2/0163-786X
DO  - 10.1108/S0163-786X(2011)0000032012
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-786X(2011)0000032012
AU  - Kutz-Flamenbaum Rachel V.
ED  - Anna Christine Snyder
ED  - Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Recruiting or Retaining? Frame Reception in the Women's Peace Movement
T2  - Critical Aspects of Gender in Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilding, and Social Movements
T3  - Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 191
EP  - 218
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -