■ Abstract The recent proliferation of scholarship on collective action frames and framing processes in relation to social movements indicates that framing processes have come to be regarded, alongside resource mobilization and political opportunity processes, as a central dynamic in understanding the character and course of social movements. This review examines the analytic utility of the framing literature for un- derstanding social movement dynamics. We first review how collective action frames have been conceptualized, including their characteristic and variable features. We then examine the literature related to framing dynamics and processes. Next we review the literature regarding various contextual factors that constrain and facilitate framing processes. We conclude with an elaboration of the consequences of framing processes for other movement processes and outcomes. We seek throughout to provide clarifi- cation of the linkages between framing concepts/processes and other conceptual and theoretical formulations relevant to social movements, such as schemas and ideology.

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Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment

In the last decade the framing perspective has gained increasing popularity among social movement researchers and theorists. Surprisingly, there has been no critical assessment of this growing body of literature. Though the perspective has made significant contributions to the movements literature, it suffers from several shortcomings. These include neglect of systematic empirical studies, descriptive bias, static tendencies, reification, reductionism, elite bias, and monolithic tendencies. In addition to a critique of extant movement framing literature, I offer several remedies and illustrate them with recent work. The articles by Francesca Polletta, John H. Evans, Sharon Erickson Nepstad, and Ira Silver in this special section address several of the concerns raised in this critique and, in so doing, contribute to the integration of structural and cultural approaches to social movements.

An Insider's Critique of the Social Movement Framing Perspective*

While the literature on framing has importantly expanded our understanding of frame creation and contests from an interpretive point of view, previous studies have largely neglected the structural ...

The Discourse of Globalization: Framing and Sensemaking of an Emerging Concept:

This paper examines the reliance of American school-based sexuality education (SBSE) programs on a moralistic agenda and several presuppositions of adolescent sexuality, resulting in a biased and inadequate approach to sexuality education. Furthermore, by virtue of its authoritative position, SBSE serves as an influential force in the construction of 'normal' adolescent sexuality and in the pro duction of a particular kind of sexual teen. A multidisciplinary collection of comments and criticisms of SBSE are organized into a three-pronged critique: (1) SBSE attends exclusively to the dangers and risks associated with teen sex; (2) SBSE reifies narrow definitions of normal teen sex as heterosexual and coital; (3) SBSE fails to address the interplay among gender, race, class and sexuality, while simultaneously propagating sexist, racist, and classist notions of sexuality. Through these presumptions and stereotypes, SBSE (mis)informs teens, projecting a particular message and vision of who and how teens are a...

The Trouble of Teen Sex: The construction of adolescent sexuality through school-based sexuality education

Introduction 1. Toward a Philosophy and Metapsychology of Peace Charles Webel 2. Peace by Peaceful Conflict Transformation: The Transcend Approach Johan Galtung Part 1: Understanding and Transforming Conflict 3. Negotiation Fen Hampson, Chester Crocker and Pamela Aall 4. Mediation Sara Horowitz 5. Former Yugoslavia and Iraq: A Comparative Analysis of International Conflict Mismanagement Jan Oberg 6. Peace Studies and Peace Politics: Multicultural Common Security in North-South Conflict Situations Kinhide Mushakoji 7. Disarmament Marc Pilisuk 8. Nuclear Disarmament David Krieger Part 2: Creating Peace 9. Peace and Conflict Counseling and Training: The Transcend Approach Gudrun Kramer, Wilfried Graf and Augustin Nicolescou 10. Nonviolence - More Than the Absence of Violence Joergen Johansen 11. Human Rights/Peace Processes Jim Ife 12. Reconciliation Joanna Santa Barbara 13. Peace as a Self-Regulating Process Dietrich Fischer Part 3: Supporting Peace 14. Gender and Peace: Towards a Gender-Inclusive Holistic Perspective Tony Jenkins and Betty Reardon 15. Peace Business Jack Santa Barbara 16. Peace Journalism Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick 17. Peace Psychology: Theory and Practice Antonella Sapio and Adriano Zamperini 18. Rethinking Peace Education Alicia Cabezudo and Magnus Haavelsrud Part 4: Peace Across the Disciplines 19. Peace Studies as a Transdisciplinary Project Chadwick Alger 20. The Spirit of War and the Spirit of Peace: Understanding the Role of Religion Graeme MacQueen 21. International Law: Amid Power, Order and Justice Richard Falk 22. The Language Game of Peace Anat Biletzki 23. Peace and the Arts Patrick McCarthy 24. Peace through Health? Neil Arya Conclusion Johan Galtung and Charles Webel

Handbook of peace and conflict studies

Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s

(1996). The “Girl Problem”: Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900–1930. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 111-112.

The “Girl Problem”: Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900–1930: Alexander, Ruth M.: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 200 pp., Publication Date: August 1995

(1997) Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972–1994 History: Reviews of New Books: Vol 25, No 2, pp 52-53

Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972–1994

Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition: Barber, Lucy G.: Berkeley: University of California Press 358 pp., Publication Date: December 2002

(2001). American Folk Music and Left-Wing Politics, 1927–1957. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 150-150.

Linda Kelly Alkana

Papers

Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s

The “Girl Problem”: Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900–1930: Alexander, Ruth M.: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 200 pp., Publication Date: August 1995

Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972–1994

Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition: Barber, Lucy G.: Berkeley: University of California Press 358 pp., Publication Date: December 2002

American Folk Music and Left-Wing Politics, 1927–1957