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Troubling Testimonies

Women's Narratives of War, Genocide, and Sexual Violence

By Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, and Johanna Mannergren

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2026

Open Access Since: 2026

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Politics Sociology

A Mouse in a Cage

Rethinking Humanitarianism and the Rights of Lab Animals

By Carrie Friese

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2025

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Environmental Studies Science & Technology Sociology

Creating the Creation Museum

How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life

By Kathleen C. Oberlin

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2020

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Politics Religion Sociology

Managing Diabetes

The Cultural Politics of Disease

By Jeffrey A. Bennett

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2019

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: American Studies Sociology

After the Protests Are Heard

Enacting Civic Engagement and Social Transformation

By Sharon D. Welch

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2019

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Domestic Workers of the World Unite!

A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights

By Jennifer N. Fish

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2017

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Politics Sociology

Finding Feminism

Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution

By Alison Dahl Crossley

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2017

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Sociology

French Fries, Lunch Lines, and Social Ties

By Amy L. Best

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2017

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Anthropology Sociology

Failing Families, Failing Science

Work-Family Conflict in Academic Science

By Elaine Ecklund and Anne E. Lincoln

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2016

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Science & Technology Sociology

A Bun in the Oven

How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization

By Barbara Katz Rothman

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2016

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Sociology

Critical Trauma Studies

Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life

Edited by Monica Casper, Eric Wertheimer, and Eric Wertheimer

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2016

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: American Studies Sociology

Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods

By Rachael A. Woldoff, Lisa M. Morrison, and Michael R. Glass

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2016

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Anthropology Sociology

This Year's Model

Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour

By Elizabeth Wissinger

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Sociology

Democratizing Inequalities

Dilemmas of the New Public Participation

Edited by Caroline W. Lee, Michael McQuarrie, and Edward T. Walker

Foreword by Craig Calhoun

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Media & Communication Sociology

Inside Plus-Size Modeling

By Amanda M. Czerniawski

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Media & Communication Sociology

Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World

By Kathy Davis

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Sociology

Border Politics

Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization

Edited by Nancy A. Naples and Jennifer Bickham Mendez

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Sociology

Nursing Homes and the Structures of Care Work

By Jason Rodriquez

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Anthropology Sociology

Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance

By Heather Laine Talley

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Anthropology Disability Studies Sociology

Caring Across Generations

The Linked Lives of Korean American Families

By Grace J. Yoo and Barbara W. Kim

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Anthropology Asian American Studies Sociology

The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease

By Janet K. Shim

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Sociology

The Children of Immigrants at School

A Comparative Look at Integration in the United States and Western Europe

Edited by Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2013

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Anthropology Sociology

Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee

By Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2013

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Environmental Studies Sociology

Cloning Wild Life

Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals

By Carrie Friese

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2013

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Anthropology Environmental Studies Science & Technology Sociology

Rhetorics of Insecurity

Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era

Edited by Zeynep Gambetti and Marcial Godoy-Anativia

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2013

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Politics Sociology

Latino Urbanism

The Politics of Planning, Policy and Redevelopment

Edited by David R. Diaz and Rodolfo D. Torres

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Anthropology Latino/a Studies Sociology

Women Who Opt Out

The Debate over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance

Edited by Bernie D. Jones

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Sociology

Ballroom Dancing and the Promise of Instant Intimacy

By Julia A. Ericksen

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Anthropology Gender & Sexuality Sociology

Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York’s Streets

By Kristina E. Gibson

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Law Sociology

Social Mobility, Public Housing, and Immigrant Networks

By Silvia Dominguez

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Latino/a Studies Sociology

Is Breast Best?

Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood

By Joan B. Wolf

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Sociology

Gender, Power, and Sex Work

By Kim Price-Glynn

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Anthropology Gender & Sexuality Sociology

Parenting Out of Control

Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times

By Margaret K. Nelson

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Sociology

The NRA’s Culture War

By Scott Melzer

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2009

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Anthropology Gender & Sexuality Sociology

Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness

By Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2009

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Media & Communication Sociology

Dying to Get High

Marijuana as Medicine

By Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2008

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Sociology

Fraternity Gang Rape

Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus

By Peggy Reeves Sanday

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2007

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Law Sociology

Transnational Adoption

A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship

By Sara K. Dorow

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2006

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Asian American Studies Sociology

The Emotional Culture of Search and Rescue Volunteers

By Jennifer Lois

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2003

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Sociology

Arrested Adulthood

The Changing Nature of Maturity and Identity

By James E. Cote

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2000

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: Sociology

Blacks at Harvard

A Documentary History of African-American Experience At Harvard and Radcliffe

Edited by Werner Sollors, Caldwell Titcomb, Thomas A. Underwood, Randall Kennedy, and Randall Kennedy

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1993

Open Access Since: 2025

Subjects: African American Studies Sociology

Catholic Activism Today

Individual Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice

By Maureen K. Day

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2020

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch

Indian American Christianity in Motion

By Prema A. Kurien

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2017

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Asian American Studies Religion Sociology

Growing God’s Family

The Global Orphan Care Movement and the Limits of Evangelical Activism

By Samuel L. Perry

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2017

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

The Bahá’ís of America

The Growth of a Religious Movement

By Mike McMullen

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: History Religion Sociology

Does God Make the Man?

Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity

By Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Media & Communication Religion Sociology

The Dynamics and Consequences of Americans’ Shifting Religious Identities

By Darren E. Sherkat

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Pagan Family Values

Childhood and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary American Paganism

By S. Zohreh Kermani

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2013

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Divine Callings

Understanding the Call to Ministry in Black Pentecostalism

By Richard N. Pitt

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: African American Studies Religion Sociology

All You That Labor

Religion and Ethics in the Living Wage Movement

By C. Melissa Snarr

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet

By Robert Glenn Howard

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Media & Communication Religion Sociology

Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace

By Phillip Luke Sinitiere and Shayne Lee

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2009

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Hare Krishna Transformed

By E. Burke Rochford

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2007

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Against All Odds

The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations

By Brad Christerson, Michael Oluf Emerson, and Korie Little Edwards

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2005

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet

By Thomas Streeter

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Media & Communication Sociology

Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy

A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents

By Vivian Center Seltzer

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2009

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: Anthropology Psychology Sociology

Pride in the Projects

Teens Building Identities in Urban Contexts

By Nancy L. Deutsch

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2008

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: History Law Psychology Sociology

When Mothers Kill

Interviews from Prison

By Cheryl L. Meyer and Michelle Oberman

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2008

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: Criminology Gender & Sexuality Psychology Sociology

Betrayal and Rejection among Girls

By Lyn Mikel Brown

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2003

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Psychology Sociology

The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma

Community Activism, Safety, and Social Justice

By Monica Williams

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2018

Open Access Since: 2022

Subjects: Criminology Sociology

The Sounds of Latinidad

Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City

By Samuel K. Byrd

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2022

Subjects: Anthropology Latino/a Studies Sociology

Community Criminology

Fundamentals of Spatial and Temporal Scaling, Ecological Indicators, and Selectivity Bias

By Ralph B. Taylor

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2022

Subjects: Criminology Sociology

Clarity, Cut, and Culture

The Many Meanings of Diamonds

By Susan Falls

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2022

Subjects: Anthropology Gender & Sexuality Sociology

Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime

By Robert D. Crutchfield

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2022

Subjects: Criminology Sociology

Judging Addicts

Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System

By Rebecca Tiger

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2022

Subjects: Criminology Sociology

Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present

By Mark Pittenger

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2022

Subjects: American Studies Sociology

Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs

By Dimitri A. Bogazianos

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2022

Subjects: American Studies Criminology Sociology

Shutting Down the Streets

Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era

By Luis A. Fernandez, Amory Starr, and Christian Scholl

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2022

Subjects: Criminology Politics Sociology

Policing Methamphetamine

Narcopolitics in Rural America

By William Garriott

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2022

Subjects: Anthropology Criminology Sociology

Dangerous or Endangered?

Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America

By Jennifer Tilton

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2022

Subjects: American Studies Anthropology Sociology

Fair Trade and Social Justice

Global Ethnographies

By Mark Moberg

Edited by Sarah Lyon

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2022

Subjects: Anthropology Sociology

Playing to the Crowd

Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection

By Nancy K. Baym

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2018

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Media & Communication Sociology

Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith

Haitian Religion in Miami

By Terry Rey and Alex Stepick

Foreword by Archbishop Thomas Wenski

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2013

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Breaking into the Lab

Engineering Progress for Women in Science

By Sue V. Rosser

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Science & Technology Sociology

The American Soul Rush

Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege

By Marion Goldman

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: History Religion Sociology

“At This Defining Moment”

Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race

By Enid Lynette Logan

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: American Studies Politics Sociology

The Lebanese Diaspora

The Arab Immigrant Experience in Montreal, New York, and Paris

By Dalia Abdelhady

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: American Studies Anthropology Sociology

Mexican Americans Across Generations

Immigrant Families, Racial Realities

By Jessica Vasquez-Tokos

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Anthropology Latino/a Studies Sociology

The Next Generation

Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective

Edited by Richard Alba and Mary C. Waters

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Anthropology History Sociology

The Assemblies of God

Godly Love and the Revitalization of American Pentecostalism

By Margaret M. Poloma and John C. Green

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Why Girls Fight

Female Youth Violence in the Inner City

By Cindy D. Ness

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Psychology Sociology

After the War on Crime

Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction

Edited by Mary Louise Frampton, Ian Haney Lopez, and Jonathan Simon

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2008

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: African American Studies American Studies Asian American Studies History Sociology

A Comparative View of Immigration

By Nancy Foner

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2005

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Sociology

Every Time I Feel the Spirit

Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American Church

By Timothy Nelson

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2004

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: African American Studies Religion Sociology

Clergy Misconduct in Modern America

Edited by Anson D. Shupe, William A. Stacey, and Susan E. Darnell

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2000

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Freezing Fertility

Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging

By Lucy van de Wiel

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2020

Open Access Since: 2020

Subjects: Anthropology Sociology

A Queer New York

Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers

By Jen Jack Gieseking

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 2020

Open Access Since: 2020

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality History Sociology

Blacks in the Jewish Mind

A Crisis of Liberalism

By Seth Forman

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1998

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: African American Studies Jewish Studies Religion Sociology

Everyday Courage

The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers

By Niobe Way

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1998

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Sociology

The Smart Culture

Society, Intelligence, and Law

By Robert L. Hayman, Jr.

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Law Sociology

The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America

By James Darsey

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: History Religion Sociology

Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America

By Richard K Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Politics Sociology

Bodies in Protest

Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge

By Steve Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Sociology

Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism

The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America

By Jody David Armour

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: African American Studies Law Sociology

To Be An American

Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation

By Bill Ong Hing

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: African American Studies Law Politics Sociology

Japanese Lessons

A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children

By Gail R. Benjamin

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Anthropology Sociology

This Time We Knew

Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia

Edited by Thomas Cushman and Stjepan Mestrovic

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1996

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: History Sociology

Teaching What You're Not

Identity Politics in Higher Education

Edited by Katherine Mayberry

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1996

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Politics Sociology

Faith Born of Seduction

Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion

By Jennifer L Manlowe

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1995

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Religion Sociology

The Slave Soul of Russia

Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering

By Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1995

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Sociology

Law and Science in America

By Steven Goldberg

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1994

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Law Science & Technology Sociology

The Chrysanthemum and the Eagle

The Future of U.S.-Japan Relations

By Ryuzo Sato

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1994

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Politics Sociology

Queer Words, Queer Images

Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality

Edited by Ronald Jeffrey Ringer

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1994

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Sociology

Can Unions Survive?

The Rejuvenation of the American Labor Movement

Edited by Charles B. Craver

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1993

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Law Sociology

Embracing the Other

Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism

Edited by Pearl Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner, Lawrence Baron, and Lawrence Blum

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1992

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Sociology

Adventures of the Mind

The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney

By Natalie Clifford Barney

Translated by John Spalding Gatton

Imprint: NYU Press

Published: 1992

Open Access Since: 2014

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality Sociology