Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Activists and Academics

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 – Noël Sturgeon

Part II: Cultural Politics after the Counterculture

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

Part III: Identity Politics and Activist Projects

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

Part IV: Searching for Strategy: Dilemmas of Activism

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 an 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

About the Contributors

Index