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Women's Advocates: Grassroots Organizing in St. Paul, Minnesota
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Dennison, Amanda Jo
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1435836256
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Year and Degree
2015, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, History.
Abstract
This dissertation overviews the creation of Women’s Advocates in St. Paul, Minnesota, one of the first shelters for battered women in the United States. Following the tradition of grassroots organizing and coalition building of the women’s movement in the 1970s, organizers of the Women’s Advocates collective overcame numerous obstacles to find allies for the creation and maintenance of the shelter. Identifying wife abuse—the term used in the 1970s—in their community, Women’s Advocates helped initiate community and state policy changes to help abused women and their children. As a part of the larger social movement that raised awareness of and helped those affected by abuse, Women’s Advocates’ work was groundbreaking and contributed to the nationwide discussion of wife abuse. Women’s Advocates’ successful grassroots organizing contributes to the historiography of U.S. Women’s History as well as social movement theory and potential activism.
Committee
Rebecca Mancuso, Dr (Advisor)
Ellen Berry, Dr (Committee Member)
Jorge Chavez, Dr (Other)
Michael Brooks, Dr (Committee Member)
Pages
184 p.
Subject Headings
History
Keywords
Womens Advocates
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St Paul, Minnesota
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Wife Abuse
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Battered Women
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Domestic Violence
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Grassroots Organizing
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Womens Activism
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Dennison, A. J. (2015).
Women's Advocates: Grassroots Organizing in St. Paul, Minnesota
[Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1435836256
APA Style (7th edition)
Dennison, Amanda.
Women's Advocates: Grassroots Organizing in St. Paul, Minnesota.
2015. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1435836256.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Dennison, Amanda. "Women's Advocates: Grassroots Organizing in St. Paul, Minnesota." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1435836256
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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