Stranger Next Door The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights; or, How the Right Divides Us

Name: Stranger Next Door The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights; or, How the Right Divides Us
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ISBN: 9780807079539

ISBN-10: 0807079537

ISBN-13: 9780807079539

Edition: 2002

Authors: Arlene Stein

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With strong on-the-ground research and lucid analysis, Arlene Stein sets out to discover why the people of a town with no apparent queer population were hell-bent on getting rid of those individuals' "special rights." The Stranger Next Door's contemporary subject and theoretical breadth coupled with a remarkable lack of jargon should make it a sociological classic.... A wonderful companion to an introductory sociology course, as well as courses on theory, sexuality, deviance, inequality, and religion .-Mary Bernstein, American Journal of Sociology "By combining the meticulousness of an ethnographer with a writer's commitment to storytelling, Stein has written a book that's surprisingly…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 4/16/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Arlene Stein is associate professor of sociology and women's studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle Over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights, winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize from the American Anthropological Association, an Honor Award from the American Library Association and a Gustavus Meyer Human Rights Book Award, Honorable Mention.