Despite the explosion of social movement research in Europe and the US in the last 20 years, the question of leadership has been relatively neglected. This probing examination of the theory and practice of social movement leadership critically re-examines a series of classic cases. The essays illuminate the complex dynamics and competing forms taken by social movement leadership as well as its impact on movement successes and failures.
Carol Hanisch Introduction The first independent women's liberation groups
began to emerge in the United States in late 1967, inspired by the civil right movement and other great upsurges for freedom around the world. Women came
into the ...
