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