This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and collective identity. Top social scientists combine insiders' insights with critical analyses to examine a wide variety of social movements active in the most recent U.S. cycle of protest. Waves of Protest is a must-read for students of social movements, social change, political sociology, and American studies.

Jo Freeman is editor of Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies and Women: A Feminist Perspective and author of A Room at a Time and The Politics of Women's Liberation. Victoria Johnson is assistant professor of sociology at Bates College and a contributor to several anthologies on social movements.

Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 MobilizationChapter 3 On the Origins of Social MovementsChapter 4 Mobilizing the DisabledChapter 5 Sacrifice for the Cause: Group Processes, Recruitment, and Commitment in a Student Social MovementChapter 6 Recruiting Intimates, Recruiting Strangers: Building the Contemporary Animal Rights MovementPart 7 OrganizationChapter 8 The Structure of Social Movements: Environmental Activism and Its OpponentsChapter 9 The Consequences of Professionalization and Formalization in the Pro-Choice MovementChapter 10 AIDS, Anger, and Activism: ACT UP as a Social Movement OrganizationPart 11 ConsciousnessChapter 12 The Spirit Willing: Collective Identity and the Development of the Christian RightChapter 13 Collective Identity in Social Movement Communities: Lesbian Feminist MobilizationChapter 14 The Social Construction of Subversive Evil: The Contemporary Anticult and Anti-Satanism MovementsPart 15 Strategy and TacticsChapter 16 A Model for Analyzing the Strategic Options of Social Movement OrganizationsChapter 17 The Strategic Determinants of a Countermovement: The Emergence and Impact of Operation Rescue BlockadesChapter 18 Civil Disobedience and Protest CyclesChapter 19 The Transformation of a Constituency into a Movement Revisited: Farmworker Organizing in CaliforniaPart 20 DeclineChapter 21 The End of SDS and the Emergence of Weatherman: Demise Through SuccessChapter 22 The Decline of the Civil Rights MovementChapter 23 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: The Rise and Fall of a Redemptive OrganizationChapter 24 IndexChapter 25 About the Contributors