British Social Movements Since 1945: Sex, Colour, Peace and Power

ISBN-13: 9781349650569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 252 str.

Adam Lent; A. Lent

Opis

Since 1945, Britain's political and cultural landscape has been transformed by social movements campaigning on issues of gender, race, disability, sexuality, the environment and peace.

Spis treści

Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Parallel Universe: Social Movements before 1970 The Long Explosion I: Women's and Gay Liberation The Long Explosion II: The Environment, Race, Disability and Peace The Fragments: The Descent into Division in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s Quenching the Flames: Professionalisation and Integration in the 1980s Passions Re-ignited: Sexuality, The Poll Tax and Radical Environmentalism in the 1990s Conclusion References Index

O autorze

ADAM LENT is ESRC Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at Sheffield University. He has written widely on social movements and has edited two books covering the politics and values of movements.