Although gender generally did not make a difference in the degree of social activism in which the respondents engaged, the men were more likely to be involved in licensing and the women, in citizen action groups....
As gay men began voluntarily withdrawing from blood donation in the early 1980s, lesbians in community with gay men in several U.S. cities organized drives to replenish the blood supply. These drives were sometimes the continuation of previously established drives by gay–lesbian organizations or ...
Examines related aspects of American college student activism and advocacy in the mid-1980s. Provides a profile of today's undergraduates and their current campus activism. Lists demographic factors that will affect continued campus tranquility. Discusses selected pressure points affecting students, includi...
This essay offers an account of the tenants' activist theatres which developed in Sheffield, UK, in the 1980s, and the role I and collaborator John Goodchild played in their development. A response by working-class communities to the devastating effects of globalisation, rapid de-industrialisation...
Feminism - Equality, Women's Rights, Activism: The women’s movement of the 1960s and ’70s, the so-called “second wave” of feminism, represented a seemingly abrupt break with the tranquil suburban life pictured in American popular culture. Yet the roo
During the 1980s, the AIDS epidemic devastated the hemophiliac population. It also fostered the emergence of hemophilia activists, who have had a profound effect on policy and politics in scores of nations. Drawing on case studies of 11 countries, this article examines the impact of this emergin...
aIn the 1980s, President Reagan waved the same banner, but with a crucial difference: Reagan tired to block welfare-type grants, whereas Nixon's block grants were for services that states and localities themselves perform. 在80年代,里根总统挥动同一副横幅,但以一个关键的区别: 里根疲倦阻拦福利类...
Think for a minute about the last time you stubbed your toe. Or the time you slammed your hand in the car door. Or that time you sliced open your finger. When you’re injured, it’s difficult to pay attention to anything, except your pain. Pain makes it hard to concentrate. Hard ...
Green activism played a critical role in the downfall of Soviet-style communism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s. After the revolutions, environmentalists were expected to exert influence within the new democracies and to form the bedrock of the new civil societies that were predicted...
Charles King, a veteran of the ACT UP Housing Committee and founder of Housing Works is organizing a shelter for homeless kids coping with this.“They are the new outcasts,” said King, 65. “This resonated deeply with me because back in the 1980s you had AIDS organizations that were not...