Andrew, MerrindahlMcLaren, Kirsty2022-09-16July 2012http://hdl.handle.net/1885/272882This paper interrogates some common assumptions about social movements, focusing on the relationship between feminist protest events and institution-building. It uses data from a unique project tracking the evolution of the Australian women’s movement to consider how feminist protests, feminist services and feminist policy agencies developed in the Australian sub-national state of New South Wales between 1970 and 2005. The general view of social movement evolution is that an early protest phase produces a subsequent response in the form of institution-building, which in turn displaces extra-institutional activity. Scholars of state feminism have also argued that gender equality projects within the state cannot survive and prosper without support from a mobilised and visible women’s movement. Although there are many narrative accounts of protest/institution relationships, this paper represents the first attempt to assess these relationships by analysing quantitative chronological data.application/pdfen-AU© 2012 International Political Science Association20122021-08-01