Encyclopedia of American social movements / / edited by Immanuel Ness ; foreword by Stephen Eric Bronner and Frances Fox Piven

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464050103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• ISBN: 1-315-70478-1; 1-317-47189-X; 1-317-47188-1; 1-78402-818-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1625 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): NessImmanuel
• Disciplina: 303.48/4/097303
• Soggetti: Social movements - United States - History; Social change - United States - History; Social justice - United States - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2004 by M.E. Sharpe.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Antislavery Movement; Introduction; Antislavery Movement, 1700s-1830s; Antislavery Movement, 1830s-1840s; Antislavery Movement, 1840s-1850s; Antislavery Movement, 1860-1865; Abolition: Humanitarian and Revolutionary Ideas; Moderate, Radical, and Militant Abolition; Frederick Douglass and Antislavery; Free Blacks: Foundations of Polities; Antislavery Resistance: An Overview; North-South Reactions to Antislavery; 2. Civil Rights Movement; Introduction; Civil Rights Movement, 1865-1910Movement to Abolish Convict Labor; Anti-Lynching Movement; Civil Rights Movement, 1910-1930; Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association Movement; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Civil Rights Movement, 1930-1953; Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1970; Nonviolent Direct Action; Congress of Racial Equality; Civil Rights Movement, 1970-1990; Racial Violence and the Civil Rights Movement; Black Nationalism and the Civil Rights Movement; Anti-Apartheid Movement; Civil Rights Movement, 1990-; 2000; Civil Rights Movement, Twenty-First Century; 3. Women's Movement; IntroductionWomen's Social Movement, 1800-1869; Moral and Dress Reform Movement, 1800-1869; Matilda Joslyn Gage and Woman Suffrage History; Popular Health Movement; Women's Cooperative Housekeeping Movement; Woman Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920; Women's Movement and Social Activism, 1865-1920; African-American Women's Movement, 1865-1920s; Women and the Progressive Movement; Women and the Anti-Imperialist Movement; Working Women's Movement, Early Twentieth Century; Birth Control Movement; Women's Movement, 1920-1960; Equal Rights Amendment; Abortion Rights Movement; African-American Women's Movement, 1930s-1940sAfrican-American Women's Movement, 1950-Present; Women's Movement, 1960-1990; Women's Studies Movement; Women's Liberation Movement, 1965-1975; Women's Movement, 1990-Present; Feminist/Lesbian Separatism Movement; Anti-Rape Movement; 4. Labor Movement; Introduction; Labor Movement, 1600-1790; Labor Movement, 1790-1860; Labor Movement, 1861-1877; Knights of Labor; Miners' Movement in the West; Anarchism and the Labor Movement; Labor Movement. 1877-1919; Eight-Hour Day Movement; Syndicalism and the Industrial Workers of the World; Railroad Workers MovementSteelworkers Movement; Garment Workers Movement; Labor Movement, 1920-1934; Communist Movement; Sacco and Vanzetti; Unemployment Movement; Unemployed Councils; Strikes of 1934; Brookwood Labor College; Labor Movement, 1935-1947; Labor Law; Cannery Workers Movement; Labor Movement, 1948-1981; Public Workers Movement; Labor Movement and the Vietnam War; Black Lung Movement; Labor Movement. 1981-Present; PATCO and Replacement Workers; United Parcel Service Strike; Hotel and Restaurant Workers Movement; Wildcat Strikes; Organized Labor, Consumption, and Boycotts; Labor Culture
• Sommario/riassunto: This four-volume set examines every social movement in American history - from the great struggles for abolition, civil rights, and women's equality to the more specific quests for prohibition, consumer safety, unemployment insurance, and global justice.

An eye for Hitchcock / / Murray Pomerance

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812388103321
• Autore: Pomerance Murray <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2004
• ISBN: 0-8135-5512-4; 0-8135-3630-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/0233/092
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-294) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: His Master's Voice -- A Great Fall: Action North by Sincerity Northwest -- A Bromide for Ballantine: Spellbound, Psychoanalysis, Light -- The Tear in the Curtain: I forbid you to leave this room -- Once in Love with Marnie -- I Confess and the Men Inside -- Gabriel's Horn: Vertigo and the Golden Passage -- Notes -- Index.