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Yesildag, Rabia (2016)

Women in the Weather Underground: A Multileveled Approach

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)
Revolutions against racism, militarism and sexism organized by the New Left characterized the political landscape in the United in the sixties and seventies of the last century. Within these groups of the New Left, women played an important part and stood side by side along their male companions. Their voices, however, are overlooked and their experiences have only been researched in general terms. This paper focuses on the American Weather Underground organization and discloses the personal opinions and experiences of three Weatherwomen, Susan Stern, Cathy Wilkerson and Bernardine Dohrn, through autobiographies and video recordings. At the hand of the new social movement theory, a multi-faceted approach for a more thorough and less-biased understanding of this radical left-wing organization, it becomes clear that the activities of the Weather Underground were not that progressive towards women’s issues as they claimed to be.
Feminism
Gender
Terrorism
Weather Underground
New Left
United States
Author
Yesildag, Rabia
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Supervisors
Vries, Mark Leon de
ECTS Credits
10
Language
en