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Social Movements in Comparative Perspective

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2005

Topics

  • Introduction: Objectives and Requirements of the Course
  • Social Movement Theory
  • Social Movement Theory and the Civil Rights Movement
  • The Rise and Decline of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Abortion: The Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Movements
  • Abortion: The Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Movements (contd.)
  • Student Presentations

Readings

  • McAdam, Doug. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970 . 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780226555539.
    Listed reading
  • Luker, Kristin. Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780520055971.
    Listed reading
  • D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 . 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780226142678.
    Listed reading
  • Piven, Frances Fox, and Richard A. Cloward. Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail . New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1978. ISBN: 9780394726977.
    Listed reading
  • Shanley, Mary Lyndon, Joshua Cohen, and Deborah Chasman. Just Marriage . New York, NY: Oxford University, 2004. ISBN: 9780195176261.
    Listed reading
  • Tarrow, Sidney. Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action and Politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University. Press, 1994, pp. 1-27. ISBN: 9780521422710.
    Listed reading
  • Olson, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965, pp. 5-52. ISBN: 9780674537507.
    Listed reading
  • McAdam, Doug. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970. Chapters 1-4.
    Listed reading
  • Garrow, David. Bearing the Cross . New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1987, pp. 11-82. ISBN: 9780394756233.
    Listed reading
  • McAdam, Doug. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency , 1930-1970 . Chapter 5.
    Listed reading
  • McAdam, Doug. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970. Chapters 6-7.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970. Chapters 8-9.
    Listed reading
  • Why no Civil Rights Movement in Brazil
    Listed reading
  • Difficulties in Organizing the Unemployed and Poor
    Listed reading
  • Why no Civil Rights Movement in Brazil?
    Listed reading
  • Marx, Anthony W. “Race-Making and the Nation-State.” World Politics 48, no. 2 (1996): 180-208.
    Listed reading
  • Piven, Frances Fox, and Richard A. Cloward*. Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail.* Chapter 1.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail . Chapter 2.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail . Chapter 5.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 12 · TOPICS: Abortion: The Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Movements · READINGS: Luker, Kristin. Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood. Chapters 1-2.
    Reading assignment
  • Luker, Kristin. Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood. Chapters 3-4.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood. Chapters 5-7.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood. Chapter 8.
    Listed reading
  • Hitt, Jack. “Who will do Abortions here?” New York Times Sunday Magazine. January 18, 1998.
    Listed reading
  • From Gay Liberation to Same-Sex Marriage?
    Listed reading
  • D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Chapters 1-3.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Chapters 4-7.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Chapters 8-11.
    Listed reading
  • D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Chapters 12-13.
    Listed reading
  • J. Garrow, David. “Toward a More Perfect Union.” The New York Times Magazine. May 9, 2004.
    Listed reading
  • Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Just Marriage. pp. 3-30.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Just Marriage. pp. 33-62.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Just Marriage. pp. 81-116.
    Listed reading
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