In de verschillende bijdragen gaan de auteurs in op postmoderne perspectieven in sociale bewegingen. De nadruk die in postmoderne benaderingen wordt gelegd op het lichaam, ras, gender en seksualiteit wordt bekeken. De bundel bevat de volgende bijdragen: Interpreting gender/door Linda Nicholson; Feminist encounters: locating the politics of experience/door Chandra talpade Mohanty; Postcolonial criticism and Indian historiography/door Gyan Prakash; African identities/door Kwame Anthony Appiah; Deconstructing queer theory or the under-theorization of the social and the ethical/door Steven Seidman; Queer visibility in commodity culturen/door Rosemary Hennessy; Gender as seriality: thinking about women as a social collective/door Iris Marion Young; Refiguring social space/door Cindy Patton; Just framing: ethnicities and racisms in a'postmodern'framework/door Ali Rattansi; Politics, culture, and the public sphere: toward a postmodern conception/door Nancy Fraser; Feminism, citizenship, and radical democratic politics/door Chantal Mouffe; The space of justice: lesbians and democratic politics/door Shane Phelan; Against the liberal state: ACT-UP and the emergence of postmodern politics/door Stanley Aronowitz; Democracies of pleasure: thoughts on the goals of radical sexual politics/door RW Connell.