Description:
With a focus on West Germany and Europe, Social Movements after '68 bridges the 1970s and 1980s as a vital period of European political development and social change. Looking past the known ruptures and changes in the history of European social movements, this volume brings together interconnected social movements including environmental, women's and gay rights movements.
Brief description:
Belinda Davis is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author or co-editor of five books, including Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Transnational Identities in 1960s/70s, West Germany and the U.S. (Berghahn Books, 2010) (co-edited with M. Klimke, C. MacDougall, and W. Mausbach); and The Inner Life of Politics: Extraparliamentary Opposition in West Germany, 1962-1983 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Review Quotes:
"A volume on social movements in the 1970s and 1980s is very welcome and timely. Now that there exists a solid corpus of monographs on the Long Sixties, serious research on the 1970s is slowly beginning to see the light of day - less so on the 1980s. Thus, Rethinking Social Movements after '68 will begin to fill a growing need." - Gerd-Rainer Horn, Sciences Po