Cultural Politics

Marcy Darnovsky is Visiting Lecturer at the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University and Hayward State University.Barbara Epstein, Professor in the History of Consciousness Board at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is author of Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s.Richard Flacks is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of several books, including Beyond the Barricades: The Sixties Generation Grows Up (with Jack Whalen, Temple).

• IntroductionPart I: Activists and Academics1. "Political Correctness" and Collective Powerlessness – Barbara Epstein2. Community and Academic Intellectuals: The Conquest for Cultural Authority in Identity Politics – Jeffrey Escoffier3. Theorizing Movements: Direct Action and Direct Theory – Noël SturgeonPart II: Cultural Politics after the Counterculture4. Motherfuckers Then and Now: My Sixties Problem – Osha Neumann5. The Counterculture, the New Left, and the New Right – Rebecca E. Klatch6. The Twelve-Step Movement and Advanced Capitalist Culture: The Politics of Self-Control in Postmodernity – Craig Reinarman7. "We Gotta Get Out of This Place": Notes toward a Remapping of the Sixties – Alice EcholsPart III: Identity Politics and Activist Projects8. Sisters and Queers: The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism – Arlene Stein9. Small Change: Radical Politics since the 1960s – L.A. Kauffman10. Gay and Lesbian Experiences and Sensibilities in the Antiwar Movement – Mindy Spatt11. Reweaving the New World Order: An Ecofeminist Analysis – Ilene Rose Feinman12. Race: Theory, Culture, and Politics in the United States Today – Howard Winant13. Industrial Racism, the Environmental Crisis, and the Denial of Social Justice – Cynthia Hamilton14. The Iconography of Hazardous Waste – Andrew Szasz15. The Media Environment after Desert Storm – Marcy DarnovskyPart IV: Searching for Strategy: Dilemmas of Activism16. Movements and Dissensus Politics – Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward17. Think Globally, Act Politically: Some Notes toward New Movement Strategy – Richard Flacks18. The Uses of Freedom: PostCommunist Transformation in Eastern Europe – Bronislaw Misztal19. The Global Planet an the Internal Planet: New Frontiers for Collective Action and Individual Transformation – Alberto Melucci20. New Social Movements and the Transformation to Post-Fordist Society – Margit Mayer and Roland Roth21. Rethinking Revolution in Light of the New Social Movements – Allen HunterAbout the ContributorsIndex

"This is an interesting and diverse collection that bridges several divides: between scholars and activists, culture and politics, and European and U.S. theoretical perspectives. Together, the chapters give a good picture of the complexities of contemporary social movements, cultural politics, identity and the politicization of personal realms, and the legacy of the movements of the 1960s. It will make a valuable contribution to contemporary intellectual and political thought."—Nancy Whittier, Smith College author of Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement