New Approaches in Sociology
About the Book Series
This series offers a forum for emerging scholars to intervene in the freshest topics in modern sociology.
If I Only Had a Brain: Deconstructing Brain Injury
1st Edition
By Mark Sherry
September 10, 2012
This book offers a rich, insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury. Sherry, a survivor of brain injury himself, uses a cross-disciplinary theoretical approach (drawing upon the social and medical models of disability and combining them with lessons from feminism, queer theory, ...
The Everyday Lives of Sex Workers in the Netherlands
1st Edition
By Katherine Gregory
September 10, 2012
This ethnographic account details the experiences of migrant and transgendered streetwalkers, and window prostitutes in The Netherlands. Through the in-depth interviews and observations, the author explores the meaning sex-workers give to their work and personal lives....
The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements
1st Edition
By Jules Boykoff
September 10, 2012
Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained - although often subtle and difficult-to observe - suppression in this country. Using mechanism-based social-movement ...
Class, Ethnicity, Gender and Latino Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
By María Eugenia Verdaguer
July 27, 2012
Drawing on surveys and in-depth interviews, this book examines the social and economic relations of first-generation Latino entrepreneurs. Verdaguer explores social patterns between and within groups, situating immigrant entrepreneurship within concrete geographical, demographic and historical ...
Gender Trouble Makers: Education and Empowerment in Nepal
1st Edition
By Jennifer Rothchild
July 27, 2012
International development efforts aimed at improving girls’ lives and education have been well-intended, somewhat effective, but ultimately short-sighted and incomplete. This is because international development efforts often operate under a reductive understanding of the term 'gender' and how it ...
Rice Plus: Widows and Economic Survival in Rural Cambodia
1st Edition
By Susan H. Lee
June 28, 2012
This book explores the economic coping practices of rural widows in the aftermath of the Cambodian civil war. War produces a preponderance of widows, often young widows with small children in their care. Rural widows must feed their families and educate their children despite rural poverty and the ...
Are We Thinking Straight?: The Politics of Straightness in a Lesbian and Gay Social Movement Organization
1st Edition
By Daniel K. Cortese
June 18, 2010
This book highlights the strategic deployment of a straight identity by an LGBT organization. Cortese explores the ways in which activists strategically use a "straight" identity as a social movement tool in order to successfully achieve the movement objectives....
Praxis and Politics: Knowledge Production in Social Movements
1st Edition
By Janet M. Conway
March 18, 2010
Praxis and Politics explores the knowledge arising from activist praxis and its significance for reimagining radical and democratic politics. It is based on five years of direct involvement in the Toronto-based Metro Network for Social Justice and their work in coalition building, ...
Talking Back to Psychiatry: The Psychiatric Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement
1st Edition
By Linda J. Morrison
October 28, 2009
Linda Morrison brings the voices and issues of a little-known, complex social movement to the attention of sociologists, mental health professionals, and the general public. The members of this social movement work to gain voice for their own experience, to raise consciousness of injustice and ...
Between Worlds: Deaf Women, Work and Intersections of Gender and Ability
1st Edition
By Cheryl G. Najarian
April 29, 2009
The purpose of this book is to illustrate the struggles of Deaf women as they negotiate their family, educational, and work lives. This study demonstrates how these women resist and overcome the various obstacles that are put before them as well as how they work to negotiate their identities as ...
Linking Activism: Ecology, Social Justice, and Education for Social Change
1st Edition
By Morgan Gardner
April 03, 2009
This book, a unique examination of the activist striving to work for more holistic social change, creates a conceptual framework to give visibility to the complexity of activist practice that spans environmental and social justice concerns....
Disability, Mothers, and Organization: Accidental Activists
1st Edition
By Melanie Panitch
October 28, 2008
This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists. Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights, these women learned to mother as activists, struggling in their homes and communities against the debilitating and demoralizing effects of exclusion....