ABSTRACT
The Women’s March demonstrated that 21st-century feminists have tools second-wave feminists could not have imagined. Many of the second-wave feminists the author interviewed speculated about what they might have accomplished if they had had access to the internet and social media. The ease of mobilization as a consequence of the internet and social media contrasts sharply with the labor-intensive mobilization preceding the mass marches of the civil rights movement and the second-wave feminist movement. Zeynep Tufekci has noted that without an organizational structure that allows for democratic decision-making, the mass mobilizations can lead to what she calls a “tactical freeze, in which these new movements are unable to develop and agree on new paths to take.” The Women’s March website made only a brief reference to an open-call solicitation for the board nomination committee that resulted in the selection of the new board members.
