Activism, Identity, and Social Theory in the 1960s: The Dawn of Life Politics

Activism, Identity, and Social Theory in the 1960s examines the crucial connection between social analysis and everyday practice using a study of the transformative social movements of the 1960s. It demonstrates how personal experiences of discrimination can reflect broader mechanisms of social exclusion to reveal how the fusion of personal and political spheres created new forms of identity politics and social activism that continue to shape contemporary society.

Seven interconnected chapte...