The Women's March: Notes from the Field

color photo of protesters at Women's March on Washington 2017
The Women's March in Washington, DC. Credit: Sean Carter Photography
Speaker: 
Michael T. Heaney, Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies and Political Science
Event Date: 
March 15, 2017
Event Time: 
3:10pm
Location: 
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room (1st floor)
Event Accessibility : 
Ramp access: Use building's north entrance (facing fountain/LSA Building) - ramp is to left of glass doors
Event Tags: 
faculty research
political science
activism
color photo of protesters at Women's March on Washington 2017
The Women's March in Washington, DC. Credit: Sean Carter Photography

An immediate question for scholars of – and activists in – the women’s movement is whether it will be able to mobilize a new generation activists to re-fight battles that were seemingly won long ago. The January 21st Women’s March on Washington was a significant first effort to mobilize women as women in the Trump era. 

In this talk, Professor Michael Heaney (Organizational Studies and Political Science) will present preliminary findings from surveys of participants at the Women’s March on Washington, and discuss his larger research project on grassroots women’s movements in the U.S.

Recommended Advance Reading: "Organizing Women as Women: Hybridity and Grassroots Collective Action in the 21st Century" by Kristin A. Goss and Michael T. Heaney