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Striving and Surviving
A Daily Life Analysis of Honduran Transnational Families
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
Drawing on data the author gathered in Honduras and the United States from weekly time diaries, in-depth interviews, participant observation and interpretive focus groups, she looks specifically at the experience and prospects of transmigrant labor in the United States; the aspirations and...
Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
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Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran
State-Building, Modernization and Islamicization
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with rule of law promotion and judicial reform in the region. This subject occupies the...
Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
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The Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights
Facing off in Cincinnati
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons' legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian right initiative emerged largely in response to...
Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Domestic Democracy
At Home in South Africa
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Parenting for the State
An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our troubled foster care system....
Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
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No Place Like Home
Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
No Place Like Home examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. Far from an isolated or contingent situation, home-based work constitutes today an enormous arena of 'invisible'...
Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Unequal Partnerships
Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
Through an examination of the Chicago Initiative, Silver analyzes how elite philanthropists exercise social control over community organizations that do work in poor neighborhoods....
Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Minority within a Minority
Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
This book examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones – who constitute a racial minority situated within a linguistic minority – face and identifies the strategies of resistance Black Francophones invent to gain access to power structures....
Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
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The Everyday Lives of Sex Workers in the Netherlands
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
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....
Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
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If I Only Had a Brain
Deconstructing Brain Injury
Series: New Approaches in Sociology
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,...
Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
Forthcoming Books
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Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church
To Be Published March 14th 2013


