Politics of Change

Examining political struggle based on sexuality, gender, and age, this volume explores identity politics from different contexts using methodological approaches and theoretical views. It teaches students and scholars of political sociology, the role of political opportunity and threat in social movements, and transgender political activism.

Introduction: Politics of Change: Sexuality, Gender, and Aging. (L. K. Waldner et al.). Everyday Living and social movements. Rivers of Ideas, Participants, and Praxis: the Benefits and Challenges of Confluence in the Landdyke Movement. (S. Anahita). Resources, Identity, and the Role of Threat: the Case of AIDS Mobilization, 1981-1986. (G. M. Tester). Identity Politics. Sexual Politics in the Defense of Art: Culture Wars, Mapplethorpe, and the Road from Formalism to Identity Politics. (D. Kidd). Life Satisfaction and Late-Life Liberal Activism: Activity, Continuity, and the Role of Identity Politics. (W. J. Kinney, J. Helfgott). Strategic Ambiguity Meets Strategic Essentialism: Multiracial, Intersex, and Disability Rights Activism and the Paradoxes of Identity Politics. (J. E. Foster). Out of the O.R. and into the Streets: Exploring the Impact of Intersex Media Activism. (S. Preves). Institutional Selves in Social Movements: the Rhetorical Production of FTM/Transmen. (K. Broad). About the Authors.