Pro-Life Activists in America: Meaning, Motivation, and Direct Action - Couverture souple

Maxwell, Carol J. C.

 
9780521669429: Pro-Life Activists in America: Meaning, Motivation, and Direct Action
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521669421 ISBN 13 : 9780521669429
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Maxwell offers an oral history of pro-life direct activism in America from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Through the stories of leaders and followers, men and women, Catholics and evangelicals, Carol Maxwell explores the complex beliefs and desires that gave rise to this activism, sustained, and eventually undid it. Maxwell's interdisciplinary approach weaves theory from sociology, political science, anthropology, and moral philosophy. She pays special attention to several key issues: the role of the participants' diverse concepts of salvation; concerns about social change; their unresolved grief; their personal experiences of abortion; and differences in men's and women's commitment to protest. The book offers a unique window into the minds of individual protestors as they shifted from conventional activism to direct action and gives an important account of the direct action movement as its initial commitment to Ghandian non-violence was broken by the lethal acts that accompanied its end.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Maxwell offers an oral history of pro-life direct activism in America from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Through the stories of leaders and followers, men and women, Catholics and evangelicals, Carol Maxwell explores the complex beliefs and desires that gave rise to this activism, sustained, and eventually undid it. Maxwell's interdisciplinary approach weaves theory from sociology, political science, anthropology, and moral philosophy. She pays special attention to several key issues: the role of the participants' diverse concepts of salvation; concerns about social change; their unresolved grief; their personal experiences of abortion; and differences in men's and women's commitment to protest. The book offers a unique window into the minds of individual protestors as they shifted from conventional activism to direct action and gives an important account of the direct action movement as its initial commitment to Ghandian non-violence was broken by the lethal acts that accompanied its end.

Revue de presse

"...a book that offers much that students of movements in all disciplines will find useful." Mobilization, Myra Max Ferree

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521669421
ISBN 13 
9780521669429
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
288
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780521660440: Pro-Life Activists in America: Meaning, Motivation, and Direct Action

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521660440 ISBN 13 :  9780521660440
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2002
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