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The Social Movements Reader, Second Edition, provides the most important and readable articles and book selections on recent social movements from around the world. With selected readings and editorial material this book combines the strengths of a reader and a textbook Reflects new developments in the study of social movements, both empirical and theoretical Provides original texts, many of them classics in the field of social movements, which have been edited for the non-technical reader Sidebars offer concise definitions of key terms as well as biographies of famous activists and chronologies of several key movements Requires no prior knowledge about social movements or theories of social movements

Jeff Goodwin is Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (2001) and Choosing Terror: A Comparative Study (2009).

James M. Jasper is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written many books, including The Animal Rights Crusade(1992) and The Art of Moral Protest (1997), and Getting Your Way (2006).

Together they have edited Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements (with Francesca Polletta)(2001), The Social Movements Reader (2003), Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Culture, and Emotion (2004), Social Movements: Critical Concepts in Sociology (2007) and The Contexts Reader (2007).

List of Key Concepts and Chronologies
List of Activist Biographies
Acknowledgments
Introduction:
Editors' Introduction
When and Why Do Social Movements Occur?: Introduction Discussion Questions
The Civil Rights Movement (from Civil Rights: The 1960s Freedom Struggle)
The Women's Movement (from ""The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement"")
The Gay Liberation Movement (from Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities)
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The Social Movements Reader Cases and Concepts

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