Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 400
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-8748-0 • Paperback • March 1999 • $79.00 • (£61.00)
978-1-4616-4687-7 • eBook • March 1999 • $75.00 • (£58.00)
Jo Freeman is editor of Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies and Women: A Feminist Perspective and author of A Room at a Time and The Politics of Women's Liberation. Victoria Johnson is assistant professor of sociology at Bates College and a contributor to several anthologies on social movements.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Mobilization
Chapter 3 On the Origins of Social Movements
Chapter 4 Mobilizing the Disabled
Chapter 5 Sacrifice for the Cause: Group Processes, Recruitment, and Commitment in a Student Social Movement
Chapter 6 Recruiting Intimates, Recruiting Strangers: Building the Contemporary Animal Rights Movement
Part 7 Organization
Chapter 8 The Structure of Social Movements: Environmental Activism and Its Opponents
Chapter 9 The Consequences of Professionalization and Formalization in the Pro-Choice Movement
Chapter 10 AIDS, Anger, and Activism: ACT UP as a Social Movement Organization
Part 11 Consciousness
Chapter 12 The Spirit Willing: Collective Identity and the Development of the Christian Right
Chapter 13 Collective Identity in Social Movement Communities: Lesbian Feminist Mobilization
Chapter 14 The Social Construction of Subversive Evil: The Contemporary Anticult and Anti-Satanism Movements
Part 15 Strategy and Tactics
Chapter 16 A Model for Analyzing the Strategic Options of Social Movement Organizations
Chapter 17 The Strategic Determinants of a Countermovement: The Emergence and Impact of Operation Rescue Blockades
Chapter 18 Civil Disobedience and Protest Cycles
Chapter 19 The Transformation of a Constituency into a Movement Revisited: Farmworker Organizing in California
Part 20 Decline
Chapter 21 The End of SDS and the Emergence of Weatherman: Demise Through Success
Chapter 22 The Decline of the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 23 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: The Rise and Fall of a Redemptive Organization
Chapter 24 Index
Chapter 25 About the Contributors
A 'good read' sorely needed to fill a gap in the political science literature on social movements.
— Karen O'Connor, American University
Freeman, Johnson, and their fellow authors survey American social movements since the 1960s with enthusiasm and perspicacity, forcing us to recognize how movement activity has transformed American life over the last half-century.
— Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University
The current generation of political science students will appreciate the useful summaries and valuable analyses of movements' political strategies within the structures of the American political system.
— Andrew S. McFarland, University of Illinois--Chicago
Fresh, timely, and widely useful. . . . Readers are informed about a wide range of movements as well as given conceptual tools to analyze them.
— Myra Marx Ferree, University of Connecticut
This is a highly useful and empirically rich collection that considers movements since the sixties as a protest wave. Indeed, the movements here are a tsunami of challenge and contention that will pique the interest of students.
— Hank Johnston
This is an important contribution to the development of political thought.
— Race Relations Abstracts
Waves of Protest is excellent social science. It is well-written, empirical, and intellectually stimulating. The book will be useful for students and scholars of political science, sociology, and social movements, and for people interested in working in such movements. In comparison with other sociological treatments of organizational behavior, Waves of Protest provides theoretical breadth, new concepts about organizations, and substantive empirical results. It offers new understanding of recent U.S. social history.
— Perspectives on Political Science
A wide range of movements are examined. Written in an accessible style, this book is aimed at students of social movements from undergradute level onwards.
— Political Studies Review
My students like this book. They tell me they plan to keep it.
— Thomas Hodd, University of Tennessee
—A classic introduction to social movements now updated to carry students into the social action of the new millennium.
—Editors Jo Freeman and Victoria Johnson provide part introductions and key chapters to knit the volume together and to put movementtheory in perspective.
—New movements and movement organizations covered include ACT UP!, the Christian Right, Lesbian Feminism, Anti-Cults and -Satanism, Pro Choice, Animal Rights, and Operation Rescue.
—Each chapter is carefully constructed to illuminate social movement structure and process along with the movements themselves.
—An interdisciplinary cast of contributors examines social movements through a variety of disciplinary lenses including political science, sociology, anthropology, and social psychology. In several cases, the authors are both scholars and activists, lending an understanding of movements from the inside out.
—Dramatic photos taken by the editors add to the stories of movements past and present.