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In addition to integrating the study of gender and social movements, studying gender within social movements allows for an investigation of a system of inequality. Even when the movement is not specifically organized around gender, gender stratification is present in movements, shaping who has power and resources. Raewyn Connell refers to this structural inequality as “gender regimes” (1987: 120) built into an institution or organization. These regimes establish who has power and who does not. Verta Taylor calls the ideology underlying these regimes “gender logic” even when they do not draw specifically “on the language of femininity and masculinity or of gender contention” (1999: 21). Taylor offers the example of “beloved community” during the civil rights movements as an illustration of how a movement not focused specifically on gender used a language of care and concern in its understanding of the social movement community. These gender regimes and gendered logics reflect the larger society and by examining them we can learn about the society in which movements form and some of the ways in which gender inequality manifests itself.