Taylor, V. (1989). Social movement continuity: The women’s movement in abeyance. American Sociological Review, 54(5), 761–775. doi:10.2307/2117752.
Not read: no lawful copy was reached on 2026-10-22 (see the status note). The summary agrees with the abstract, read through OpenAlex, and a reading should check it.
Why this is here
A29 cited it as an empirical precedent for a perspective that persists dormant and is later reinstated, the persistence CLAIM-287 describes. Bears on CASE-133 and CLAIM-420.
From the abstract, 2026-10-22. The record calls this a perspective that “persisted dormant” (CASE-133; CLAIM-329 calls it “the dormant form”) and one that “persisted with little story told about it” (CLAIM-420). The abstract describes something more active: “women’s rights activism from 1945 to the 1960s” carried by “social movement abeyance structures” that “provide organizational and ideological bridges between different upsurges of activism by the same challenging group”. That is continuity through small, exclusive, centralized organizations, nearer CLAIM-329’s transmission of an organization than CLAIM-287’s dormant capacity. The abstract says nothing either way about how much story was told. Unchecked against the text.