Bücher der Reihe New Approaches in Sociology

Presents the study of domestic labour since South Africa's post-apartheid transition. Drawing on a fieldwork, this research offers diverse perspectives on the race, class and gender divides that remain integral to social relations in the context of national transition. It also details women's collective agency exploring the social policy change.

This qualitative study captures the dynamics and interdependence of the gay, lesbian, and bisexual movement and the Christian right as they engaged in a struggle over an antigay initiative in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Offers an insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury. This book uses a cross-disciplinary theoretical approach drawing upon the social and medical models of disability and combining them with lessons from feminism, queen theory, postcolonial and postmodern literature to frame a narrative about the experience of brain injury.

Detailing the experiences of migrant and transgendered streetwalkers and window prostitutes in The Netherlands, this ethnographic account explores the meaning sex-workers give to their work and personal lives.

In exploring the knowledge arising from activist praxis and its significance for reimagining radical and democratic politics, this book attempts to break theoretical and methodological ground in social movement studies.

Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of the troubled US foster care system.

Examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. This book talks about home-based work that constitutes an enormous arena of "invisible" social and political struggles of subaltern and ethno-racially subordinated women.

Through an examination of the Chicago Initiative, this book analyzes how elite philanthropists exercise social control over community organizations that do work in poor neighbourhoods. It investigates how community-based organizations strategically attempt to assert influence over foundation funding priorities.

Examining the reform of the judicial system in twentieth century Iran, this book helps readers to understand Iranian modern history as well as the democratization process, human rights and rule of law issues in the Middle East.