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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: The Feminism in Women's Self-Help -- 2 The Cradle Falls: Postpartum Illness and the Contradictions of Motherhood -- 3 Seize the Day: The Emergence of a Self-Help Movement -- 4 Getting and Giving Support: Women's Self-Help Communities -- 5 The Metamorphosis of Feminism in Women's Self-Help: Collective Identity in the Postpartum Support Group Movement -- 6 The Revolution from within: Gendering Social Movement Theory -- Appendix: Postpartum Support Groups

Editors Note: In 2007, The Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame began sponsorship of an annual award named for its first recipient, John McCarthy. The John D. McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Action has subsequently been presented to Verta Taylor (2008), Mayer Zald (2009), and Doug McAdam (2010). As part of each year's award ceremony, the McCarthy Award winner gives a public lecture that reflects on her or his past contributions to the field of social movement research, while also looking forward to promising lines of future inquiry. The publication in Mobilization of these lectures highlights both the important role recipients have played in shaping the field of social movement research, as well as their unique perspectives on where the field is headed. To this end each award winner has generously collaborated with Mobilization in the publication of an article based on the original McCarthy Award lecture. We are pleased to offer Verta Taylor's contribution in this issue. McCarthy Award lectures from other recipients will appear in future issues as they become available to us.

In this article the author presents her viewpoints and experiences regarding social movements, as related during her acceptance of 2008 John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award. The author reflects upon the identities and political commitments pivotal to her research, which provided her with new insight into the nature and dynamic of the field of social movements. Then the author discusses the overall importance of mentors and collaborators, particularly in the field of collective behavior theory. Next, the author discusses the process of ideas and practicum, the issues of gender, and moving in a direction that pushes the envelope. Then the author explains her thoughts on the everyday meaning of theoretical innovation and the multi-institutional approach to social movements, the practices of activists, and politics. Also, the article discusses theoretical bridging, action orientation and public sociology, before concluding on a personal note re social movements and the structural, cultural, and social psychological factors lying therein. References. M Diem

Part of a review symposium on a book by Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, & Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention, (New York: Cambridge U Press, 2001). Though the approach to the study of collective action & contentious politics offered here is not altogether as new as it claims to be, this dynamic, constructionist perspective on underlying causal mechanisms & social interaction processes is welcomed. McAdam, Tarrow, & Tilly expand current understandings of the "pervasiveness & wide impact" of contentious politics, as well as demonstrate the importance of the social interactions between participants in collective political struggles. However, some theoretical biases are noted, & the authors are faulted for excluding instances of challenges to nonstate authority waged by, eg, the women's & environmental movements. 13 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Ways that social movement participation can contribute to the reconstruction of social identities by mobilizing around collective identities that help translate negative or stigmatized emotions into positively valued self-definitions are demonstrated in a case study of a support group for women with postpartum depression. Individual interview & survey data from women (& 5 men) across the US are supplemented with organizational-level data drawn from participant observation, archival sources, a telephone support contact survey, & media sources, as well as discourse analysis of the literature published 1975-1993 & 56 interviews with medical & mental health care providers. The "emotion culture" of this self-help movement is described, along with the ways that it contributes to the development of a collective identity among group members. The psychological dynamics of the guilt & shame experienced by mothers who experience depression after the birth of their children are summarized & explored as a form of gender resistance, ie, as a means of reconstructing the "emotion norms of motherhood" & protesting female subordination. 110 References. K. Hyatt Stewart