Fostering Empowerment, Building Community: The Challenge for State-Funded Feminist Organizations
通过德克萨斯州受虐妇女运动的案例，研究国家资助如何影响女权组织，既带来资金稳定和政治影响，又可能威胁运动的思想和政治凝聚力，而女权主义领导能通过赋权实践缓解这种影响。
Using a case study methodology this paper explores specific ways in which the battered women's movement in Texas was affected by state funding. State funding of movement organizations is a mixed blessing. It allows movement activists to stabilize the funding of their organizations and to have a wider political and social impact. At the same time, state funding expands the organizational field based on available resources, not common ideology. This expansion has the potential to threaten the ideological and political cohesion of the movement. The affects of state funding are mitigated when the movement's leadership has a feminist vision and engages in feminist practices that challenge the bureaucratic and hierarchical practices of the state's decision making structures by empowering movement participants to work together collectively towards common goals.