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ReferencesGamson, William. The Strategy of Social Protest. Second Ed. Belmont, Ca., 1990. A fresh methodological approach to deriving generalizations about what "works," drawn from data on "challenging groups" in the United States since 1800. Gitlin, Todd. The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars. New York, 1995. An ironic take on the culture wars by a gifted essayist. Jasper, James M. The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements. Chicago, 1997. A rhetorical perspective on social movements by a literate sociologist, one that highlights the creative, innovative, and moral aspects of protest actions. Klandermans, Bert. The Social Psychology of Protest. Oxford, 1997. An engagingly systematic treatment of the factors that impel and constrain movement participation, supported by studies of movements on both sides of the Atlantic. McAdam, Doug and David A. Snow, Social Movements: Readings on Their Emergence, Mobilization, and Dynamics. Los Angeles, 1997. See especially the essays in Parts 6 and 8. Simons, Herbert. W. Persuasion in Society. Thousand Oaks, CA, 2001. See especially Chapter 14 for an elaboration of themes presented in condensed fashion here. Simons, H.W., Mechling, E.W., and Schreier, H.N., The Functions of Human Communication in Mobilizing for Action From the Bottom Up: The Rhetoric of Social Movements. In C.C Arnold and J.W. Bowers, eds, Handbook of Rhetorical and Communication Theory. Boston, 1984, 792-868. Smith, Ralph R. and Windes, Russel R. Progay/Antigay: The Rhetorical War Over Sexuality. Thousand Oaks, CA, 2000. Movement studies tend to focus on one movement, giving short shrift to its evil twin. This marriage of Burkeian rhetorical theory and interpretive sociology is valuable not just as a contribution to gay/lesbian studies, but as a case study in the rhetoric of movements and counter-movements more generally. Stewart, Charles J., Smith, Craig A. and Denton, Robert E., Persuasion and Social Movements, Third Edition. Prospect Heights, IL, 1994. This textbook features the work of rhetorically oriented communication scholars. |