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Social Movements in Advanced Capitalism: The Political Economy and Cultural Construction of Social Activism » Read Now
by Steven M. Buechler. 240 pgs.

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...Building on a critical overview of current social movement theory, this book presents a structural model for analysing social movements in advanced capitalism that locates...
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Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism » Read Now
by David De Leon. 610 pgs.

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The radicals and liberals of the 1960s expressed ideas that continue to both attract and repel people decades later. Nostalgia books relive the Woodstock festival and the protests; past Presidents Bush and Reagan remember the era with unease; and scholars skirmish over the meaning of the period...
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The radicals and liberals of the 1960s expressed ideas that continue to both attract and repel people decades later. Nostalgia books relive the Woodstock festival and the protests; past Presidents Bush and Reagan remember the era with unease; and scholars skirmish over the meaning of the period. DeLeon is the first to provide information on activists of the period and their continued activities into the 1990s. With major sections on racial democracy, peace and freedom, sexuality and gender, the environment, radical culture, and visions of alternative societies, the book includes entries on a wide selection of nationally prominent personalities of the 1960s. In addition to those who dominated those years, the volume includes earlier activists who came into prominence in the 1960s and those who have come into the limelight since the 1960s. Each entry provides a biographical sketch, but the focus is on the person's basic concepts or the essence of his or her work and the public response it generated. The volume also includes extensive bibliographies on the individuals and the period.
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East European Fault Lines: Dissent, Opposition, and Social Activism » Read Now
by Janusz Bugajski, Maxine Pollack. 334 pgs.

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...Dissent, Opposition, and Social Activism Janusz Bugajski and Maxine Pollack...lines: dissent, opposition, and social activism / Janusz Bugajski and Maxine Pollack...3...
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The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s » Read Now
by Karin Aguilar-San Juan. 395 pgs.

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...LIBERATION Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s...to policymakers and initiate advocacy programs for their own communities...codewords of the 1980s stressing...
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Contesting Apartheid: U.S. Activism, 1960-1987 » Read Now
by Donald R. Culverson. 177 pgs.

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...human rights component of antiapartheid activism. Human rights groups, besides offering...the origins of Africanist human rights advocacy date to the late nineteenth...
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Party Organization and Activism in the American South » Read Now
by Robert P. Steed, John A. Clark, Lewis Bowman, Charles D. Hadley. 268 pgs.

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...Party Organization and Activism in the American South Party Organization and Activism in the American South Edited by Robert P...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Party...
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Race and Politics: New Challenges and Responses for Black Activism » Read Now
by James Jennings. 212 pgs.

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In this sequel to his widely read Race, Politics & Economic Development, Jennings provides an acute survey of racial politics, with practical discussions of programmes designed for black activism.
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Something within: Religion in African-American Political Activism » Read Now
by Fredrick C. Harris. 230 pgs.

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...Frederick Harris wades into a perennially contentious debate: the degree to which religious experience is central to African American political involvement and success. For...
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Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism, and Political Change in Egypt » Read Now
by Carrie Rosefsky Wickhman. 304 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Mobilizing Islam explores how and why Islamic groups succeeded in galvanizing educated youth into politics under the shadow of Egypt's authoritarian state, offering...
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Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan: The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism » Read Now
by Patricia L. MacLachlan. 317 pgs.

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Providing comparisons to the United States and Britain, this book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement. Organized largely by and for housewives and spurred by major cases of price gouging and product contamination, the movement led to the passage of basic consumer protection...
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Providing comparisons to the United States and Britain, this book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement. Organized largely by and for housewives and spurred by major cases of price gouging and product contamination, the movement led to the passage of basic consumer protection legislation in 1968. Although much of the story concerns the famous "iron triangle" of big business, national bureaucrats, and conservative party politics, Maclachlan takes a broader perspective. She points to the importance of activity at the local level, the role of minority parties, the limited utility of the courts, and the place of lawyers and academics in providing access to power. These mild social strategies have resulted in a significant amount of consumer protection.
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A New Era of Activism: Who Will Frame the Agenda: (Social and Consumer Activism), in The Futurist » Read Now
by Rafael D. Pagan Jr. 5 pgs.

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...A new era of activism: who will frame the agenda: (social and consumer activism) by Rafael D. Pagan Jr. Society finds...crucial of these challenges is the globalization of...
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E-Activism, in Alternatives Journal » Read Now
by Mark Meisner. Multiple pgs.

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...e-Activism by MARK MEISNER Environmental...educate and agitate. And Web-based e-activism, like its flesh-world counterpart, ranges...to a politician. This point-and-click...
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Women for a Change: A Grassroots Guide to Activism and Politics » Read Now
by Thalia Zepatos, Elizabeth Kaufman. 280 pgs.

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This is a handbook for women who want to increase their political involvement at any level. There are interviews with women who have already done so in this guide from 2 political veterans.
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The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict » Read Now
by Suzanne Staggenborg. 240 pgs.

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In this highly-praised analysis of the controversial pro-choice movement, Suzanne Staggenborg traces the development of the movement from its origins through the 1980s. She shows how a small group of activists were able to build on the momentum created by other social movements of the 1960s to win...
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In this highly-praised analysis of the controversial pro-choice movement, Suzanne Staggenborg traces the development of the movement from its origins through the 1980s. She shows how a small group of activists were able to build on the momentum created by other social movements of the 1960s to win their cause--the legalization of abortion in 1973--and argues that professional leadership and formal organizational structures, together with threats from the anti-abortion movement and grass-roots support, enabled the pro-choice movement to remain an active force even after their primary goal had been achieved.
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The Politics of Transformation: Local Activism in the Peace and Environmental Movements » Read Now
by Betty H. Zisk. 260 pgs.

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This book is a study of local grassroots activism in two major political areas, the peace and environmental movements, over a period of five years. Interviews with leaders of 166 different groups in five states (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, California, and Oregon) are supplemented by...
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This book is a study of local grassroots activism in two major political areas, the peace and environmental movements, over a period of five years. Interviews with leaders of 166 different groups in five states (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, California, and Oregon) are supplemented by personal observation and the experience of participation in several of those groups. The major concerns are the group and movement successes both short-run and long-run, and activist group adaptations to change in the larger social and political world in light of political upheaval in Eastern Europe, the Gulf War, and several environmental crises that occurred during the period in question.
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