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• Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution New York University Press (New York, NY), 2017

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  Alison Crossley

  Associate Director, The Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
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  University of California, Santa Barbara
  University of California, Santa Barbara
  Degree NameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Field Of StudySociology
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  Activities and Societies: Doctoral emphasis in Feminist Studies
  Goldsmiths College, U. of London
  Goldsmiths College, U. of London
  Degree NameMaster of Arts (M.A.) Field Of StudyMedia and Communications
  Dates attended or expected graduation 2002 – 2003
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  Alison Dahl Crossley
  Associate Director
  Postdoctoral Fellow 2013-16
  Faculty Director, Graduate Voice & Influence Program 2015-16
  Graduate Voice & Influence Program 2014-15
  Graduate Voice & Influence Program 2013-14
  Alison Dahl Crossley is the Associate Director of Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She leads the Institute's strategic focus, operations, and academic and community relations, including the Institute’s fellowship programs and programming. She co-organized the Institute's Online Feminism Conference, drawing a diverse group of scholars and activists from across the country to discuss the challenges and possibilities of Internet activism. In 2015-2016 Alison was faculty mentor for the Clayman Institute's graduate Voice & Influence Program, a program designed to empower the voices of a select group of women and underrepresented minority Stanford graduate students so that they have more influence at Stanford, within their disciplines, and in their academic careers. At Stanford, she teaches "Intersectionality and Social Movements: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Collective Organizing."

  Crossley's areas of scholarly expertise include gender, social movements, and feminism. Her book Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution will be published in the spring of 2017. In Finding Feminism, Crossley analyzes feminist activists at three different U.S. colleges, revealing that feminism is alive on campuses, but is complex, nuanced, and context-dependent. The feminists in Crossley’s book engage in a breadth of social justice organizing. Sharing personal stories of their everyday experiences with inequality, the young people in Finding Feminism employ both traditional and innovative feminist tactics. They use the Internet and social media as a tool for their activism, what Crossley calls “Facebook Feminism.” The university, as an institution, simultaneously aids and constrains their fight for gender equality.

  Crossley has published articles and chapters about women's movements, online feminism, and social movement continuity, including the article “Facebook Feminism: Social Media, Blogs, and New Technologies of Contemporary U.S. Feminism” (Mobilization 2015). She has spoken extensively on feminism and contemporary activism.

  Previously, Crossley was a postdoctoral fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She earned her MA and PhD in Sociology with an emphasis in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received an MA in Media and Communications from the University of London, Goldsmiths College, and a BA in Women's Studies from Smith College.

  She can be contacted at acrossle@stanford.edu

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  'I am a Feminist': New generation steps up to claim the 'F-word', San Jose Mercury News: August 26, 2015

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  ALISON DAHL CROSSLEY PHD
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  STANFORD UNIVERSITY

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  Alison Dahl Crossley PhD is the Associate Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. She leads the Institute's strategic focus, operations, and academic and community relations.
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  She is the author of Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution (NYU Press, 2017).

  Crossley's areas of research and teaching include gender, social movements, culture, digital media, and research methods. Recently, she has written about online feminism, the continuity of the feminist movement, and emerging forms of political contestation.

  She holds a BA from Smith College (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, highest departmental honors), an MA in Media and Communications from the University of London, Goldsmiths College, and an MA in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has a PhD in Sociology with a doctoral emphasis in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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  Alison was quoted and her book was mentioned in a recent New York Times article about campus feminism.

  Alison was quoted in a USA Today College article about her research.

  Alison spoke about her research on "Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller."

  Curve Magazine featured a review of Alison's book.

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  On Campus, Embracing Feminism and Facing the Future
  By EILENE ZIMMERMANMARCH 31, 2017
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  One of the things Tina Campt, a professor and director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, has noticed about the young women in her classes is their radically open notion of sexuality and gender.

  “These students want the freedom to express who they are without the constraints of choices such as either a woman or man, heterosexual or homosexual,” Dr. Campt said. “Those categories no longer carry a definitional value.”

  Women now account for the majority of college students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, 11.3 million of them as compared with 8.7 million men. And 63 percent identify as feminist. Their concerns run the gamut, from sexual assault and poverty to affordable education, immigration and reproductive rights, said Alison Dahl Crossley, the associate director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University.

  Both Dr. Campt and Dr. Crossley, who is also author of the book “Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution,” say women today are in a world that is profoundly different from what it was a generation ago, so they are having to create ways of coping with new challenges, the same as previous generations did.

  “The structure of the economy, of family and of work is very, very different,” Dr. Campt said.

  She said young women today were entering an economy with fewer work opportunities and much more debt. It is also an era in which feminist activism and education happen in both the physical world and the virtual one, often through blogs and social media.

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  One thing that surprised Dr. Crossley about the college women she studied was their wholehearted embrace of feminism. “They spoke about how feminism permeated their worldview and their interactions and the relationships they had in their everyday lives,” she said.

  We spoke to female undergraduates at colleges around the country to find out what issues they were most concerned about and what feminism meant to them. Their comments have been edited and condensed.

  Morgan Brownlee, 22, graduated from San Diego State University in December

  Sociology major and French minor

  The biggest issue for me as a woman on campus is safety and acceptance. When I walk in a room, I do a quick scan to see if there are any other women there. And if there are men, I look at how many are white, and their ages. It gives me a sense of the openness of the room.

  I worry about equality of pay, and it’s something that when I hear my dad talk about, as a black man, I think, “He’ll still probably make more than I ever will,” because not only am I a woman, but I’m black.

  I feel like the women’s movement doesn’t represent women of color as well as it could. I’m not expecting the movement to be perfect, but if you’re talking about women earning 80 cents for every dollar a man makes, you’re not really talking about Latina women, black women, Native American women, who make even less than that.

  Melanie Camejo Coffigny, 18, first-year student, Duke University

  Neuroscience major

  If you had asked me my concerns about being a woman six months ago, I don’t know if they would have been the same. The election and college have changed that. I’m a Cuban immigrant — I came to the U.S. in 2009, when I was 11 years old — and what concerns me most now is the idea of safety, both on the college campus and in the world.

  I’m very involved with the fight against rape culture, and I’m out as an L.G.B.T. student and activist. But the climate in North Carolina now, that’s something to be concerned about.

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  I worry a lot about immigration status. I’m technically safe, but who knows what will happen now. The whole idea of safety as something that is given to us by society concerns me. The idea that we are to blame for what happens to us — women, minorities, immigrants — because of how we dress or express ourselves or our immigration status. There’s so much victim-blaming.

  I consider myself a feminist, and that means attaining equality in all the senses that entails. As an out woman of color, it’s the idea that I will be able to be myself and fight for the things I care about.

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  Alexa Dantzler sees a dearth of minority women in the STEM disciplines: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Credit Audra Melton for The New York Times
  Alexa Dantzler, 21, senior,
  Emory University, Atlanta

  Biology and African studies major

  For me as a woman, what I see on campus and in the bigger world is that we’re always fighting for equal opportunity and access. I am on the pre-med track, and I’m also African-American, Korean and Slovak. I see such a lack of minority women in STEM.

  I haven’t had a physician mentor who is a minority woman, and I think it’s harder to relate to role models in your future career field when they haven’t had the same racial experiences. I don’t have someone I can ask: “What was it like being a black woman in your medical school classes? What were the challenges you faced?” That’s a real concern of mine.

  On campus, I’m concerned about the language and rhetoric used to describe minority groups, and that includes women. I think our voices may be heard less as a result of the current rhetoric and the direct implications of it.

  Lexi Hoagland, 20, sophomore,
  Harding University, Searcy, Ark.

  Public relations and marketing major

  I’m concerned that some women don’t feel capable of succeeding or comfortable in our own skin. I am a conservative Christian and my morals and beliefs line up with that, but I would also say I’m a conservative Christian feminist. I believe in God and I am definitely pro-woman, but I’m also pro-man.

  I believe God created men and created women with different skills and talents to serve for different reasons. Feminism to me is believing in myself, following my dreams and empowering other people — both men and women.

  There’s a scripture in the Bible that I fall back on a lot, that I aspire to live by, and it’s really important. In Proverbs 31, it talks about being a “wife of noble character.” I’m not married, but I take it to mean not a wife but rather a woman of noble character. Full of confidence in myself and bringing good to everyone around me, being a hard and persistent worker, being respectful, being bold — not shrinking or weak.

  Kat Kerwin, 19, sophomore,
  University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Political science and geography major

  The biggest issue on campus for women here is sexual assault, being afraid of the young men we know here, who are in our lives.

  One of my best friends was sexually assaulted a year ago but didn’t report it, and we were out at a bar and he was there. She was very uncomfortable with him being there, and I went up to him and said, “Look, she feels really uncomfortable, could you leave?” He said no. It’s concerning, the rape culture and lack of respect for women.

  Another big concern for me as a woman is being able to graduate and find a job. I think as a woman it’s a lot more difficult. Guys are given priority — you’ve seen the studies where if it says you’re a man on your résumé you are more likely to get hired. I’m also bothered that if you’re an assertive woman — and I’m called aggressive all the time simply because I’m assertive — it’s misconstrued as bossiness. That really undermines us. It says to women it’s not O.K. for us to be driven, ambitious and have strong opinions.

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  Kelsey Ritchie went to the women’s march in Washington, but also President Trump’s inauguration. Credit Allison V. Smith for The New York Times
  Kelsey Ritchie, 22, senior,
  Texas Christian University, Fort Worth

  Political science and journalism major,
  business minor

  I am concerned about unequal pay between men and women in the workplace. I’m going to grad school after college to study public policy and if I have debt after that, will I be able to pay it off as well as my male peers? Because men earn more. When I look at jobs, I know it will take me X amount of years longer to pay off my school debt than it would if I were a man. That could affect my ability to pursue a career I’m passionate about.

  I consider myself a feminist and also a pretty religious Christian. I went to the march in Washington this past January, but I also went to the inauguration. I look at feminism as feeling empowered enough to behave in a way that demands respect, rather than acting in a way that demands attention. I am a student body vice president at T.C.U. and very career-focused. I’ve thought a lot about balancing what the world defines as a strong woman with biblical truths, such as this phrase in Scripture: “Submit to your husband.”

  The Bible is very clear about men being the ones to lead relationships. And for a long time it was difficult for me to accept this, but I’ve realized it doesn’t have to demean a woman’s role in a relationship. Submission doesn’t have to come from weakness. We are all called to serve each other by utilizing our strengths. My biblical foundation empowers me to advocate for women’s rights.

  A version of this article appears in print on April 2, 2017, on Page F2 of the New York edition with the headline: On Campus, Embracing Feminism. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

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  What Feminist Activism Looks Like On Different College Campuses
  BY ALISON DAHL CROSSLEY IN FEMINISM
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  This adapted excerpt from my book emphasizes the cross-movement nature of feminist activism and the contextual differences in feminist activism using examples of coalitions on two college campuses. The findings are based on my multi-year research: 75 interviews and 1400 survey responses from students at the University of Minnesota, the University of California-Santa Barbara, and Smith College.

  New generations of feminists are more likely to unite in coalitions than previous generations, as a result of their intersectional grievances and opposition to a monolithic women’s solidarity. Broadly defined, coalitions are alliances between two or more organizations within the same movement or across different movements. Coalitions are an essential tool of many mobilized participants’ activism — they may form for a single event or be more long-lasting, although research has indicated that brief rather than sustained coalitions may be more successful.

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  In my book, coalitions influenced the tactics of feminist organizations on all three campuses. Successful collaborations occurred within a wide swath of student groups. Their tactical emphasis on working across movements and organizations was consistent with activists’ intersectional grievances and expansive collective identities. Their decisions to form coalitions were based on their goals. For example, at Smith College their goal was to bring feminist groups together through the cupcake social to show the breadth of feminism at Smith. At UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the University of Minnesota, activists had visions of mobilizing a massive number of students to pressure administrators to make the university more accessible. Ultimately, coalitions spoke to the wide acceptance of feminism as critical to social justice writ large.

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  Smith: Spreading Feminism at the Cupcake Social

  By New England standards it was a balmy spring day, and the Smith feminist cupcake social was geared up in a large room in the campus center. Floor-to-ceiling windows overlooked the large lawn at the center of campus. Upon entering the room, students were given plain, undecorated cupcakes. Representatives from nine feminist student organizations sat at tables around the room, each stocked with frosting and toppings. Attendees moved from table to table, where they had opportunities to decorate and eat their cupcakes while speaking to members of the feminist organization at each place. Organizer Gabrielle said the purpose of the cupcake social was to “show [students] that feminism is broader than the issues they think it includes” and to create feminist community. Participants in a number of Smith groups considered their organizations feminist. While in the past the organizers have been frustrated at the lack of connection between feminist organizations, this event was a success.

  As I moved around the tables, I spoke to all student representatives about why their organizations were feminist. Rueben, a transgender student involved in Beyond Gender Binary (BGB), told me that, although some feminists do not consider transgender men as feminist (“you know, because they are changing from women to men”), he did. He had a handwritten poster taped to their table that said “feminists are concerned with all people” and handed out a flier with phrases such as, “For every girl who threw away her easy bake oven, there is a boy who wishes to find one.” In our interview a few days later, Rueben elaborated on how BGB was a feminist organization: “[BGB] is about increasing trans visibility on campus, increasing education and rights, which all leads inevitably to hopefully being able to live as we see fit in our bodies. We do a lot with education, which is a form of working with equal access, giving people equal access to education, which is feminist.” For Rueben and many other students, their feminism was bound to their activism in pursuit of general progressive social change. Few students at any institution disentangled their desire for a more just world generally from being a feminist specifically.

  Back at the cupcake social, a student with a pixie haircut and rhinestone-encrusted cat-eye glasses at the STAND organization table spoke to me in depth about her campaign to make Smith a conflict mineral–free campus. She told me that Stanford and Cornell universities were already conflict mineral–free, and they are hoping Smith will follow suit. When I asked her in what ways her organization was feminist, she said that she considered genocide and their conflict mineral–free campaigns to be feminist issues because both forms of social injustice affect women disproportionately. Similarly, the student at the Smith Democrats table spoke with me about all the connections between feminists and Democrats, and easily rattled off a list of the pro-women legislation that Democrats had recently passed.

  Coalitioning was not only an expression of their intersectional feminism, however. Smith student Anna C. spoke about how she was consciously hoping to “spread feminism” through coalitions: “That’s definitely a big goal, [to] touch people in different ways, if they could see these other orgs, and how they relate to feminism in some way, they could really make that connection.” This resonates with many students’ approaches to feminist mobilization. Students incorporated feminism in a variety of coalitions that had both women-centered grievances and more general social justice approaches to feminism. These coalitions were promoted because of the feminist sensibility at Smith.

  The cupcake social was an achievement, but it is unclear whether a sustained coalition would function. Smith students were not always in agreement over different approaches to the movement, perhaps because of their extensive knowledge about and passion for feminism. Elizabeth’s discussion of feminist and social justice groups was evidence of this tension:

  "I think a lot of Smith’s extracurricular groups are very normative and completely within the bounds of the system. There’s a lot of people here who just want to save women in Africa or save women in India, and I think this tends to be really ignoring institutional problems, ignoring the forces of neoliberalism and imperialism, ignoring the problems with U.S. democratizing and the U.S. going in and the IMF and the World Bank and basically colonizing them."

  Although Elizabeth was on the more opinionated end of the spectrum, I heard enough remarks about the divergences in feminist ideology that I suspected long-term feminist coalitions would not survive at Smith. Moreover, there was little incentive. None of the feminist groups had much funding, rendering meaningless financial resource sharing, a primary benefit of coalitions.

  UCSB: Plentiful Coalitions

  UCSB students formed a myriad of coalitions, and their presence was ubiquitous in respondents’ descriptions of their activism and in my observations of their campus feminism. This was due to the pride that students had in the institution’s activist history. Many Latina feminist activists worked in collaboration to empower their fellow Latinas. A UCSB sorority member, for example, told me about a coalition to encourage underrepresented Latina youth in Santa Barbara to matriculate at UCSB. She said, “[F]all quarter we put on the Latina youth leadership conference, we recruited ladies from local high schools, and we had a day for them here, with workshops and guest speakers, and wanting them to pursue higher education.” UCSB feminist organizations coalitioned with other organizations to put on events that sounded similar to the Whose U? Day of Action at the University of Minnesota. Summer said, “We work with quite a few Latino sororities and fraternities, and other Black sororities and fraternities. We work with other chapters of our sorority. Mostly we work with other Greek organizations. Next year, we hopefully will branch out . . . but also keep our connections, because we’ve had some really good collaborations with those organizations.”

  Camille was involved in at least six student organizations, from the women of color spoken word group to the human rights group. When I asked her whether she cosponsored events between organizations, she responded enthusiastically:

  "All the time. Honestly my time is extremely limited, and all the things I do intersect. Even if they are focused on different identities, they really are fundamentally all human rights focused. And, I think that is essential to all of them. And, you have to understand it’s also the networking abilities that you create here. And kind of getting involved in the activism community here, and building trust, and I’ve realized that cosponsorships on a flier may mean something, but it’s also meaning that I’ve got their backs and the other people’s backs. We’re constantly cosponsoring and working on each other’s campaigns."

  It was clear from their achievements and visibility that these coalitions were effective due to strong networks ties and a shared vision for an inclusive and feminist university. While there were certainly divergences in priorities within the activist communities at UCSB, their pride in the activist history, support from the university, and shared goals for change sustained and nourished their coalitions. In comparison to Smith activists, who had fewer financial resources and more disagreements about feminist ideologies and goals, UCSB activists and their coalitions flourished.

  Adapted excerpt from Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution, by Alison Dahl Crossley

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College, the University of Minnesota, and the University of California at Santa Barbara--to establish that young
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mobilize in different ways from their foremothers; they are savvy about online activism, their feminism is an everyday
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deleterious to the movement itself. Crossley, the Associate Director at The dayman Institute for Gender Research at
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prove that the feminist movement is too complex and nuanced to be construed in waves. The historical framework of
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  FINDING FEMINISM
  MILLENNIAL ACTIVISTS AND THE UNFINISHED GENDER REVOLUTION
  Alison Dahl Crossley
  NYU Press (Apr 25, 2017)
  Softcover $28.00 (256pp)
  978-1-4798-8409-4

  Comprehensive and scholarly, Finding Feminism is best for the seasoned millennial feminist or for the new one truly committed to the cause.

  Alison Dahl Crossley’s Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution is an in-depth look at contemporary feminism, particularly as it is engaged by millennials.

  Starting with a brief look at some of the facets that make up modern feminism, the book delves into what feminism is to millennials—and that could depend on factors such as race, class, or education. A young black woman may not feel the connection to mainstream feminism that a young white woman does. Acknowledging differences like that, Crossley presents subgroups of feminism and variations in each.

  Throughout the text, different sections focus on aspects that affect feminism, such as representation, organizations, and identity. They are each incredibly thorough. Interviews add authenticity to the work. The differences and similarities between young feminists and older generations are made clear; many new issues have arisen that weren’t prominent concerns or even taboo.

  Transgender rights were at once unspoken of. Interviews with transgender feminists lend credibility. Immigration may have once been only an issue to for immigrants, but has become a feminist issue. What’s wonderful about Finding Feminism is that these statements aren’t touting modern feminism as the cure-all; they’re pointing out the lengths that today’s feminists still have to go to in order to attain true equality.

  This is clearly an academic text; the language is dry, though not uninteresting. It is thought-provoking, particularly in the areas not regularly discussed with thinking about feminism. Most know how the media portrays feminism and the text acknowledges this, showing that there is a world beyond the mainstream brand of feminism.

  While the book is an enjoyable read, it is still one some may find difficulty immersing themselves in. Comprehensive and scholarly, Finding Feminism is best for the seasoned millennial feminist or for the new one truly committed to the cause.

  Reviewed by Hannah Hohman
  May/June 2017

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