Political Protest and Cultural Revolution - Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s

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List of contents

List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Protest in the 1960s and 1980s: The Blocked Cultural Revolution
2. The Clamshell Alliance: Consensus and Utopian Democracy
3. The Abalone Alliance: Anarcha-Feminism and the Politics of Prefigurative Revolution
4. The Livermore Action Group: Direct Action and the Arms Race
5. Feminist Spirituality and Magical Politics 
6. The Religious Community: Mass Politics and Moral Witness
7. Radical Politics in Late Capitalist Society

Conclusion
Notes
Sources
Index

About the author

Barbara Epstein is Professor, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism and Temperance in Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica (1981).

Summary

From her perspective as both a participant and an observer, the author of this study examines the nonviolent direct action movement, an offshoot of the American civil rights movement, which flourished in the USA from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Epstein, Epstein Barbara
• Assisted by: Barbara Epstein (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.1993
• EAN: 9780520084339
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08433-9
• No. of pages: 332
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; USA, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, United States of America, USA, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, c 1970 to c 1979, Human rights, civil rights, c 1970 to c 1980, Demonstrations & protest movements, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989