Social movements and the symbolism of public demonstrations: the 1874 Women's Crusade and German resistance in Richmond, Indiana.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: March 22, 1999| Author: Sellman, James Clyde | Copyright information

The Women's Crusade in Richmond offers valuable insights into social movement dynamics. Richmond's Crusade involved both women's temperance activism and a counter-movement centered in a large German minority. This inquiry takes a multidimensional approach, interweaving gender, ethnicity, religion, class, and the wider community context. Drawing on concepts developed by anthropologists Victor Turner and Milton Singer, this essay interprets the Crusade both as a "cultural performance" and as a ...

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