The Social Movements Reader, Second Edition, provides the most important and readable articles and book selections on recent social movements from around the world.

* With selected readings and editorial material this book combines the strengths of a reader and a textbook

* Reflects new developments in the study of social movements, both empirical and theoretical

* Provides original texts, many of them classics in the field of social movements, which have been edited for the non-technical reader

* Sidebars offer concise definitions of key terms as well as biographies of famous activists and chronologies of several key movements

* Requires no prior knowledge about social movements or theories of social movements