Nancy A. Naples is professor of sociology and women’s studies at the University of Connecticut where she also directs the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her publications include over fifty book chapters and journal articles. She is author of Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work and the War on Poverty and Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis and Activist Scholarship; editor of Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender; and co-editor (with Karen Bojar) of Teaching Feminist Praxis; Women’s Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics (co-edited with Manisha Desai); and The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossing and Mexican Immigrant Men by Lionel Cantú’ (with Salvador Vidal-Ortiz). She is series editor for Praxis: Theory in Action (SUNY Press) and New Approaches in Sociology: Studies in Social Inequality, Social Change, and Social Justice (Routledge)