Acknowledgments
Part One: Narrative and the Sociology of Social Movements
1. Narrative and Social Movements: The Power of Stories
Joseph E. Davis
2. Plotting Protest: Mobilizing Stories in the 1960 Student Sit-Ins
Francesca Polletta
3. Controlling Narratives and Narratives as Control within Social Movements
Robert D. Benford
Part Two: Analysis of Narrative in Social Movements
4. "Getting Our Histories Straight": Culture, Narrative, and Identity in the Self-Help Movement
John Steadman Rice
5. Moving Toward the Light: Self, Other, and the Politics of Experience in New Age Narratives
Michael F. Brown
6. Fundamentalism: When History Goes Awry
Joshua J. Yates and James Davison Hunter
7. Drug Court Stories: Transforming American Jurisprudence
James L. Nolan Jr.
8. Compassion on Trial: Movement Narrative in a Court Conflict over Physician Assisted Suicide
Jeffery D. Tatum
9. Movement Advocates as Battered Women's Storytellers: From Varied Experiences, One Message
Bess Rothenberg
Part Three: Conclusion
10. The Storied Group: Social Movements as "Bundles of Narratives"
Gary Alan Fine
Bibliography
Contributors