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This theory reconceives the commonly assumed necessary and sufficient conditions for freedom within the social contract tradition in specifically social terms to respond to feminist critiques to social contract theory regarding problems of oppression for freedom.

Women have long been involved in social movement activism in the United States, from the nation's beginning up to the present, and in waves of feminist activism as well as in a variety of other social movements, including the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and conservative mobilizations. The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism provides both a detailed and extensive examination of the wide range of U.S. women's collective efforts, as well as a broad overview of the scholarship on women's social movement struggles. The volume's five sections consider various dimensions of women's social movement activism: (1) women's collective action over time exploring the long history of women's social movement participation, (2) the variety of social issues that mobilize women to act collectively, (3) the myriad types of resistance strategies and tactics utilized by activists, (4) both the forums and targets of women's mobilizations, and (5) women's participation in a diversity of activist efforts beyond women's movements. The five sections present a total of thirty-six chapters, each written by leading scholars of women's social movement mobilizations. The chapters, in addition to describing women's activism and reviewing the scholarly literature, also define important directions for future research on women and social movements, providing scholars with a guide to what we still do not know about women's collective struggles.

This title sets out a radical and innovative new way for understanding how people interpret and make sense of crime, arguing that certain incidents change how people think, feel and behave about their safety due to their actions operating as signals to the presence of wider risks and threats.

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