Cultural politics and social movements

Darnovsky, Marcy. (Added Author). Epstein, Barbara Leslie, 1944- (Added Author). Flacks, Richard. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781566393225 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781566393232 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1566393221 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN: 156639323X (pb : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxiii, 360 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1995.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. "Political Correctness" and Collective Powerlessness / Barbara Epstein -- 2. Community and Academic Intellectuals: The Conquest for Cultural Authority in Identity Politics / Jeffrey Escoffier -- 3. Theorizing Movements: Direct Action and Direct Theory / Noel Sturgeon -- 4. Motherfuckers Then and Now: My Sixties Problem / Osha Neumann -- 5. The Counterculture, the New Left, and the New Right / Rebecca E. Klatch -- 6. The Twelve-Step Movement and Advanced Capitalist Culture: The Politics of Self-Control in Postmodernity / Craig Reinarman -- 7. "We Gotta Get Out of This Place": Notes toward a Remapping of the Sixties / Alice Echols -- 8. Sisters and Queers: The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism / Arlene Stein -- 9. Small Change: Radical Politics since the 1960s / L. A. Kauffman -- 10. Gay and Lesbian Experiences and Sensibilities in the Antiwar Movement / Mindy Spatt -- 11. Reweaving the New World Order: An Ecofeminist Analysis / Ilene Rose Feinman -- 12. Race: Theory, Culture, and Politics in the United States Today / Howard Winant -- 13. Industrial Racism, the Environmental Crisis, and the Denial of Social Justice / Cynthia Hamilton -- 14. The Iconography of Hazardous Waste / Andrew Szasz -- 15. The Media Environment after Desert Storm / Marcy Darnovsky -- 16. Movements and Dissensus Politics / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- 17. Think Globally, Act Politically: Some Notes toward New Movement Strategy / Richard Flacks -- 18. The Uses of Freedom: PostCommunist Transformation in Eastern Europe / Bronislaw Misztal -- 19. The Global Planet and the Internal Planet: New Frontiers for Collective Action and Individual Transformation / Alberto Melucci -- 20. New Social Movements and the Transformation to Post-Fordist Society / Margit Mayer and Roland Roth -- 21. Rethinking Revolution in Light of the New Social Movements / Allen Hunter.