Stories of Change : Narrative and Social Movements

Acknowledgments vii PART ONE Narrative and the Sociology of Social Movements Narrative and Social Movements: The Power of Stories 3(28) Joseph E. Davis Plotting Protest: Mobilizing Stories in the 1960 Student Sit-Ins 31(22) Francesca Polletta Controlling Narratives and Narratives as Control within Social Movements 53(26) Robert D. Benford PART TWO Analysis of Narrative in Social Movements ``Getting Our Histories Straight'': Culture, Narrative, and Identity in the Self-Help Movement 79(22) John Steadman Rice Moving Toward the Light: Self, Other, and the Politics of Experience in New Age Narratives 101(22) Michael F. Brown Fundamentalism: When History Goes Awry 123(26) Joshua J. Yates James Davison Hunter Drug Court Stories: Transforming American Jurisprudence 149(30) James L. Nolan Jr. Compassion on Trial: Movement Narrative in a Court Conflict over Physician-Assisted Suicide 179(24) Jeffery D. Tatum Movement Advocates as Battered Women's Storytellers: From Varied Experiences, One Message 203(26) Bess Rothenberg PART THREE Conclusion The Storied Group: Social Movements as ``Bundles of Narratives'' 229(18) Gary Alan Fine Bibliography 247(28) Contributors 275(4) Index 279