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Bridging the worlds of activism and academia-social movement theory informed with the real experiences of activists-this volume of accessible essays brings together insights from European New Social Movement theorists, U.S. scholars of social movements, and activists involved in social movements from the 1960s to the 1990s.
 

Contributors: Alice Echols, Barbara Epstein, Richard A. Cloward, Marcy Darnovsky, Jeffrey Escoffier, Ilene Rose Feinman, Richard Flacks, Cynthia Hamilton, Allen Hunter, L. A. Kauffman, Rebecca E. Klatch, Margit Mayer, Alberto Melucci, Bronislaw Misztal, Osha Neumann, Frances Fox Piven, Craig Reinarman, Roland Roth, Arlene Stein, Mindy Spatt, Andrew Szasz, Noél Sturgeon, Howard Winant.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. vii-xxiv
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  1. I. Activists and Academics
  1. 1. "Political Correctness" and Collective Powerlessness
  2. pp. 3-19
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  1. 2. Community and Academic Intellectuals: The Conquest for Cultural Authority in Identity Politics
  2. pp. 20-34
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  1. 3. Theorizing Movements: Direct Action and Direct Theory
  2. pp. 35-52
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  1. II. Cultural Politics after the Counterculture
  1. 4. Motherfuckers Then and Now: My Sixties Problem
  2. pp. 55-73
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  1. 5. The Counterculture, the New Left, and the New Right
  2. pp. 74-89
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  1. 6. The Twelve-Step Movement and Advanced Capitalist Culture: The Politics of Self-Control in Postmodernity
  2. pp. 90-109
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  1. 7. "We Gotta Get Out of This Place": Notes toward a Remapping of the Sixities
  2. pp. 110-130
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  1. III. Identity Politics and Activists Projects
  1. 8. Sisters and Queens: The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism
  2. pp. 133-153
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  1. 9. Small Change: Radical Poltics since the 1960s
  2. pp. 154-160
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  1. 10. Gay and Lesbian Experiences and Sensibilities in the Antiwar Movement
  2. pp. 161-166
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  1. 11. Reweaving the New World Order: An Ecofeminist Analysis
  2. pp. 167-173
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  1. 12. Race: Theory, Culture, and Poltics in the United States Today
  2. pp. 174-188
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  1. 13. Industrial Racism, the Environmental Crisis, and the Denial of Social Justice
  2. pp. 189-196
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  1. 14. The Iconography of Hazardous Waste
  2. pp. 197-222
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  1. 15. The Media Environment after Desert Storm
  2. pp. 223-232
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  1. IV. Searching for Strategy: Dilemmas of Activism
  1. 16. Movements and Dissensus Politics
  2. pp. 235-250
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  1. 17. Think Globally, Act Politically: Some Notes toward New Movement Strategy
  2. pp. 251-263
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  1. 18. The Uses of Freedom: Postcommunist Transformation in Eastern Europe
  2. pp. 264-286
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  1. 19. The Global Planet and the Internal Planet: New Frontiers for Collective Action and Individual Transformation
  2. pp. 287-298
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  1. 20. New Social Movements and the Transformation to Post-Fordist Society
  2. pp. 299-319
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  1. 21. Rethinking Revolution in Light of the New Social Movements
  2. pp. 320-344
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  1. About the Contributors
  2. pp. 347-350
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 351-360
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