Decisions Without Hierarchy

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Summary and Conclusion

Three feminist organizations, two anarchist and one liberal, have been observed. Findings are that the anarchist feminist groups were able, during the two-year period of observation and interviewing, to maintain non-hierarchical organization while at the same time achieving, to a reasonable extent, organization goals. The liberal feminist group, as expected, maintained a hierarchical organization. As explained earlier, for liberal feminists, development of non-hierarchical organization is not an immediate goal. However, as argued in the chapter describing this group, a great deal of conflict existed among organization members over goals. Values behind these goals were related to the hierarchy/non-hierarchy argument, ...