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Drawing on years of research with activists around the world, sociologist Naomi Braine describes the strategies, politics, and tactics of direct action feminists bringing abortion pills, information, and support to people seeking to end unwanted pregnancies. From combatting the legal strictures of Bolsonaro's Brazil, to navigating the NGO-dominated landscape of Kenya and Nigeria, feminist activists are making safe, accessible abortion care available against the odds.Even more important, these women are building a robust transnational feminist network. Tactics developed in the Global South - hotlines, practices of accompaniment and peer-to-peer care, and scientific information - are now being shared with activists in Europe and North America, building a new model for international feminist solidarity.

Reviews cultural & social psychological analyses of social movements, & explores how "liberation movements" differ systematically from those based on concern about social problems, pointing out the impact of those differences on the dynamics of social movements. The benefits of cultural & social psychology studies are discussed, along with their tendency to inadequately position individuals & social groups within power systems of domination, arguing that the failure to address the role of opposition to domination often results from the different characteristics of the groups studied. Environmental & antinuclear activists build identity & consciousness "from the ground up" since their identities are chosen, rather than imposed from the outside by a dominant group, as is the case with racial groups. It is contended that oppositional cultures & consciousness are generated by the historical & social processes that exist in systems of human domination. The impact of physical segregation on oppositional consciousness is discussed, along with the link between structure & culture, & the different cultural tasks confronting liberation movements, equality-based special issue movements, & social responsibility movements. J. Lindroth

Reviews cultural & social psychological analyses of social movements, & explores how "liberation movements" differ systematically from those based on concern about social problems, pointing out the impact of those differences on the dynamics of social movements. The benefits of cultural & social psychology studies are discussed, along with their tendency to inadequately position individuals & social groups within power systems of domination, arguing that the failure to address the role of opposition to domination often results from the different characteristics of the groups studied. Environmental & antinuclear activists build identity & consciousness "from the ground up" since their identities are chosen, rather than imposed from the outside by a dominant group, as is the case with racial groups. It is contended that oppositional cultures & consciousness are generated by the historical & social processes that exist in systems of human domination. The impact of physical segregation on oppositional consciousness is discussed, along with the link between structure & culture, & the different cultural tasks confronting liberation movements, equality-based special issue movements, & social responsibility movements. J. Lindroth