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This bibliography created by Pamela Oliver outlines some of the more important articles on social movement theory.
The American Indian M.
Donald
Purich. Our Land.
New Left/Student M.
Judith
Albert and Stewart Albert. The Sixties
Papers.
Wini
Breines. Community and Organization in the New Left.
Craig
Calhoun. Neither Gods Nor Emperors.
Robert
Cohen. When the Old Left Was Young.
Todd
Gitlin. The Sixties.
Todd
Gitlin. The Whole World is Watching.
Andrew
Jamison and Ron Eyermam. Seeds of the
Sixties.
James
Miller. "Democracy is in the Streets."
Kirkpatrick
Sale. SDS.
Feminism/Women's M.
Buechler, Steven M. 1986. The Transformation of the Woman Suffrage Movement.
Buechler,
Steven M. 1990. Women's Movements in the
United States. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Nancy
Adamson, Linda Briskin and Margaret McPhail. Feminist
Organizing
for Change.
Michele
Barreu. Women's Oppression Today.
Ann
Costam. Inviting Women's Rebellion.
Alice Echols. Daring to be Bad.
Faludi,
Susan. 1991. Backlash: The Undeclared War
Against American Women. New York: Crown.
Ferree,
Myra Marx, and Beth Hess. 1985. Controversy and Coalition: The New Feminist Movement.
G.K. Hall & Co.
Freeman,
Jo. 1975. The Politics of Women's
Liberation. New York: Longman Inc.
Rupp, Leila, and Verta Taylor. 1987. Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Myra
Marx Ferree and Patricia Martin. Feminist
Organization.
Jo
Freeman. Politics of Women's Liberation.
Janet
Giele. Two Paths to Women's Equality.
Mary
Katzenstein and Carol Mueller. The Women's
Movements of the United States and Western Europe.
Chandra
Mohanty, A. Russo and L. Torres. Third
World Women and Politics of Feminism
Mansbridge,
Jane. 1986. Why We Lost
the ERA.
Leila
Rupp and Verta Taylor. Survival in the
Doldrums.
Barbara
Ryan. Feminism and the Women's Movement.
Vandana
Shiva Staying
Alive.
Pro-Choice M.
Jaffee,
Frederick S., Barbara L. Lindheim and Phillip R. Lee. 1981. Abortion Politics: Private Morality
and Public Policy.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Luker,
Kristen. 1984. Abortion and the Politics
of Motherhood. Berkeley, CA: University of CA Press.
Staggenborg,
Suzanne. 1991. The Pro-Choice
Movement: Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict.
New York: Oxford University Press.
Staggenborg Suzanne, India University (1989) “Organizational and Environmental Influences on the Development of the Pro-Choice movement”. Social Forces. 68,1, 204-40.
Rosalind
Petchesky. Abortion and Woman's Choice.
Websites:
Civil Rights M.
Blumberg,
Rhoda. 1984. Civil Rights:
The 1960s Freedom Struggle. Boston: Twayne.
Branch,
Taylor. 1988. Parting the Waters: America
in the King Years, 1954-63.
New York: Simon and Schuster.
Carson,
Clayborne. 1981. In
Struggle: SNCC
and
the Black
Awakening
of the 1960s. Cambridge, MA:
Cambridge University Press.
McAdam,
Doug. 1988. Freedom Summer. New York:
Oxford University Press.
McAdam,
Doug. 1982. Political Process and the
Development of Black lnsurgency.
McAdam,
Doug. 1983. "Tactical Innovvation
and the Pace of Insurgency." American
Sociological Review 48.
Meier,
August and Elliott Rudwick. 1973. CORE: A
Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968.
New York: Oxford University Press.
Morris, Aldon. 1984. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: The Free Press.
Environmental M.
Cohen,
Michael P. 1988. The History of the Sierra
Club: 1892-1970.
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
Hayes,
Samuel P. 1987. Beauty, Health, and Permanence:
Environmental Politics in the United States,1955-1985.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Levine,
Adeline Gordon. 1982. Love Canal: Science,
Politics and People. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
Manes,
Christopher. 1990. Green Rage: Radical
Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization.
New York: Little Brown & Co.
Paehlke,
Robert 1989. Environmentalism and the
Future of Progressive Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Robert Bullard. Confronting Environmental
Racism.
Steve Chase. Defending the Earth.
Andrew Dobson. Green Political Thought.
David Helvarg. The War
Against the Greens.
William Leiss. Ecology Versus Politics in Canada
John Lofland. Polite Protesters.
Christopher Manes. Green Rage.
Rik Scarce. Eco-Warriors.
Victor Scheffer. The Shaping of Environmentalism in America.
Bron
Taylor. Ecological Resistance Movements.
Antinuclear M.
Adair,
Stephen. 1996 "The
Ideological Limits of New Social Movements: The Rise and Fall of the
Clamshell Alliance." Pp. 45-61 in Mainstream(s) and Margins:
Cultural Politics in the 90s, edited by M. Morgan and S. Leggett. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
Balogh, Brain. 1991 Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power, 1945-1975. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Barkan,
Steven. 1979. "Strategic,
Tactical, and Organizational Dilemmas of the Protest Movement Against
Nuclear Power." Social Problems 27(1):19-37.
Downey,
Gary L. 1986. "Ideology and
Clamshell Identity: Organizational Dilemmas in the Anti-nuclear
Movement." Social Problems 33: 357-373.
Epstein,
Barbara. 1991. Political
Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and
1980s. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Gyorgy,
Anna. 1979. No Nukes: Everybody's Guide to Nuclear Power. Boston:
South End Press.
Jasper,
James. 1990. Nuclear Politics:
Energy and the State in the United States, Sweden and France. Princeton:
Princeton University Press.
Joppke,
Christian. 1993. Mobilizing
Against Nuclear Energy: a Comparison of Germany and the United States.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Kitschelt,
Herbert. 1986. "Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest:
Anti-nuclear Movements in Four Democracies. British Journal of Political Science 16(1):57-85.
Mitchell,
Robert Cameron. 1981. "From
Elite Quarrel to Mass Movement." Society 18(5): 76-84.
Price, Jerome. 1990. The Anti-Nuclear Movement:, Revised Edition. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
Peace M.
DeBenedeui,
Charles. 1980. The Peace Reform in
American History. Rev. ed. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press.
Wittner,
Lawrence S. 1980. Rebels Against War: The
American Peace Movement, 1933-1980.
Rev. ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Charles Chatfield. The American Peace Movement.
Nuclear Freeze M.
Katz,
Milton S. 1986. Bam the Bomb. New
York: Greenwood Press.
Meyers,
David. 1990. Winter of Discontent: The
Nuclear Freeze and American Politics. New York: Praeger.
Solo, Pam. 1988. From Protest to Policy: Beyond the Freeze to Common Security. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger.
Gay/Lesbian Rights M.
Dennis
Altman. Homosexual Oppression and Liberation.
Adam,
Barry. I 986. The Rise of a Gay and
Lesbian Movement.
Bob
Cant and Susan Hemmings. Radical Records
Margaret
Cruikshank. The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement.
Gene
Damon and Coletta Reid. The Lavender Herring.
John
D'Emilio. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities.
Martin
Duberman. Stonewall
Bruce
Galloway. Prejudice and Pride.
Gay
LeR Collective. Homosexuality, Power & Politics.
Aart
Hendriks, Rob Tielman and Evert van der Veen. The
Third Pink Book.
Laud
Humphreys. Out of
the Closets.
Stephen
Jeffery-Poulter. Peers, Queers, and Commons.
Toby
Marotta. Politics of Homosexuality.
National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Anti-Gay
Violence, Victimization and Defamation.
Jeffrey
Weeks. Coming Out.
Citizen/Neighborhood
M.
Saul
Alinsky. Rules for
Radicals.
Robert
Fisher. Let the
People Decide.
Kelley
Griffin. More
Action for a Change.
John
Hammond. Building
Popular Power.
Robert
Mayer. The
Consumer Movement.
Ralph
Nader and Donald Ross. Action
for a Change.
Frances
Piven and Richard Cloward. Poor
People's Movements.
Bryan
Palmer. Solidarity.
Michael
Williams. Neighborhood
Organizations.
Militia/Survivalist
M.
James
Coates. Armed and
Dangerous
Alan Crawford. Thunder on the Right.
Warren Kinsella. Web of Hate.
Morris Schonbach. Native American Fascism During the 1930s and 1940s.
The
New Christian Right/Evangelical M.
Michael
Barkun. Religion
and the Racist Right.
Cedric
Belfrage. The American
Inquisition.
David
Bennett. The Party
of Fear.
Paul
Gottfried and Thomas Fleming. The
Conservative Movement.
Robert
Griffith and Athan Theoharis. The
Specter.
Jeffrey
Herf. Reactionary
Modernism
William
Hixson. Search for
the Americam Right
Wing.
James
Hunter. American
Evangelism.
Joel
Kovel. Red Hunting
in the Promised Land
Robert
Liebman and Robert Wuthnow. The
New Christian Right.
Wyn Wade. The Fiery Cross.
Eve,
Raymond and Francis Harrold. 1990. The
Creationist
Movement in America
Pro-Life M.
Cumeo, Michael W. 1989. Catholics Against the Church: Anti-Abortion Protest in Toronto, 1969-1985. Toronto: University of Toronto
Spitzer, Robert J. 1984. The Right to Life Movement and Third Party Politics. New York: Greenwood Press.
Andrew Merton. Enemies of Choice.
Frank Mort. Dangerous Sexualities.
Animal
Rights M.
Lawrence
Finsen and Susam Finsen. The Animal
Rights Movement in America |
Temperance/Prohibition
M.
Jack Blocker. American Temperance Movements.
Martin Durham. Moral Crusades.
Joseph Gusfield. Symbolic Crusade.
"Ardent Spirits" From the Library Collection of Philadelphia
"The Anti-Saloon League" Westerville Public Library Server
Seagram Collection of Temperance and Alcoholism, University of Waterloo Library
Socialism/Commust M.
Harvey Klehr and John Haynes. The American
Communist Movement.
Gordon
White, Robbin Murray and Christine White. Revolutionary
Socialist Development in the Third
World.
Labor M.
Gaventa, John. 1980. Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Other Movements
Michael
Oliver. The Politics of Disablement.
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Cathy Siebold. The Hospice Movement.
Aptheker,
Herbert. 1988. Abolitionism: A
Revolutionary
Movement.
Clanton, Gene. 1991. Populism: The Humane Preference in America 1890-1900.
Goldstein, Michael. 1992. The Health Movement.
Hawes, Joseph. 1992. The Children's Right Movement.
Powell,
Lawrence, John Williamson and Kenneth Branco. 1994.
The Senior Rights Movement.
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