Oppositional discourses and democracies / edited by Michael Huspek.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Michael Huspek -- State ideology and oppositional discourses : conceptual and methodological issues / Peter Jones and Chik Collins -- Ideology, discourse, and moral economy : consulting the people of North Manchester / Colin Barker -- Where state power and opposition collide : discourses of labor protest in a new market economy / Charles Woolfson -- Challenging new laws with old values : indigenous resistance to state "enforcement" of children's rights in Ghana / Janice Windborne -- State power and the reconstitution of parental rights in U.S. child custody mediation / Lynn Comerford -- Weaving and unweaving the rights of public woman : the case of telephone operators at the turn of the twentieth century / Jane S. Sutton -- Vigilance and solidarity in the rhetoric of the black press : the Tulsa Star / Olga Idriss Davis -- "From the standpoint of the white man's world" : the black press and contemporary white media scholarship / Michael Huspek -- Exposing the hypocrisies of state power : the African-American press and the Holocaust / Felecia G. Jones Ross and Sakile Kai Camara -- The philosophical foundations of the discourse society / Darryl Gunson -- Habermas and oppositional public spheres : a stereoscopic analysis of competing discourses / Michael Huspek -- The rational bases of transgressive rhetoric / Michael Huspek.