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Contents
NotesonContributors vii
Introduction:1968inRetrospect xi 13
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Part III OtherVoices
8 May1968andAlgerianImmigrantsinFrance:Trajectories
ofMobilizationandEncounter 115
MaudAnneBracke
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9 TurningtoAfrica:PoliticsandStudentResistancein
Africasince1968 131
LeoZeilig
10 RidingtheWaves:Feminism,LesbianandGayPolitics,
andtheTransgenderDebates 147
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Notes on Contributors
Gurminder K. Bhambra is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the
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University of Warwick, UK, and convenor of the British Sociological 5-
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West European Communism and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968 (2007), n
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Sociological Association. Her research and scholarship have examined gra
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issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and nation. Her first book, p
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of ww
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Empowerment (1990), won the Jessie Bernard Award of the American o
Sociological Association for significant scholarship in gender, and the al fr
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C. Wright Mills Award for the Study of Social Problems. Her second at
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book,Race,Class,andGender:AnAnthology(6thedn,2007,editedwith ht
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MargaretAndersen),iswidelyused.HerbookBlackSexualPolitics:African yri
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Ipek Demir is Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Leicester.
Her work draws on political philosophy, social theory and epistemol-
ogy. Her current research interests include a theoretical and empiri-
cal study of order and trust within science. Her publications include
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viii NotesonContributors
‘Incommensurabilities in the Work of Thomas Kuhn’, Studies in History
and Philosophy of Science, No. 39 (2008) and ‘Thomas Kuhn’s Construc-
tion of Scientific Communities’ in S. Herbrechter and M. T. Higgins
(eds) Returning (to) Communities: Theory, Culture and Political Practice of
theCommunal(2006).
Stephen Frosh is Pro-Vice-Master, Head of the School of Psychosocial 3
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Studies and Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of 05-
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London. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial 01
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studies and on psychoanalysis, including Hate and the ‘Jewish Science’: ct -
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sexualityandgender.ShehaspublishedarticlesinTheJournalofGender Fe
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inequality. He is the author of Social Theory and Explanation (with w
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GeneralTheory(1996)aswellasothereditedbooksandarticles.Heiscur- al fr
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Sarah Hornstein is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at C
YorkUniversityinToronto,Canada.ShecompletedherMaster’sdegree
inSociologyatSimonFraserUniversity.HerprimaryinterestisGerman
socialtheory,particularlythatoftheFrankfurtSchool.Sheiscurrently
planningadissertationfocusingontheFrankfurtSchool’stheorization
of totalitarianism and its relevance for understanding the dynamics of
contemporaryliberaldemocracy.
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William Outhwaite studied at the Universities of Oxford and Sussex.
He taught at the University of Sussex from 1973 until 2007, at which
point he took up the position of Professor of Sociology at Newcastle
University.Hisresearchhasengagedwithdebatesincriticaltheory,the
philosophy of social science, the history of social thought and con-
temporary Europe. His recent publications include The Future of Society
(2006),and(withLarryRay)SocialTheoryandPostcommunism(2005).He
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presentresearchanalysestherelationsbetweensubjectivizationandthe sity -
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chology and the Sociology of Deviance. The following year he started n
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Department, and has researched and written widely on sexuality. He m - li
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alities Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experience (1992); Chicago Sociology: gr
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CriticalAssessments(1997;4vols);TellingSexualStories(1995);Sexualities p
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(2002; 4 vols); Documents of Life-2: An Invitation to a Critical Humanism ww
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(2001); Intimate Citizenship (2003); and (with John Macionis) Sociology: o
A Global Introduction (4th edn, 2008). In 1996, he set up the journal al fr
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LynneSegalisAnniversaryProfessorofPsychologyandGenderStudies yri
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at Birkbeck. Her research is in the interdisciplinary domain of gender C
studies and addresses the diversity of feminist scholarship, psychoana-
lyticdialogueandcriticaltheory.Shetacklesissuesofsexualdifference,
masculinityanditsdiscontents,sexualitiesandculture,politicalidenti-
ficationsandculturalbelongings.HerbooksincludeIstheFutureFemale?
Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism; Slow Motion: Changing
Masculinities, Changing Men; Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure; Why
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