Texts, Facts and Femininity

Texts, Facts and Femininity is a collection of essays which illustrate the full range of work by this leading feminist scholar on social relations as texts. It includes Smith's famous essay K is mentally ill.

Zusatztext There are several essays which are destined to become classics of their kind ...' - Times Higher Education SupplementA crucial book for feminists! for sociology and the new "political anthropological historical school". It informs us how we are differently "situated" in and through social relations! which texts and images mediate! organise and construct.' - Philip Corrigan! co-author of The Great ArchThere are several essays which are destined to become classics of their kind ...' - THESA crucial book for feminists! for sociology and the new "political anthropological historical school". It informs us how we are differently "situated" in and through social relations! which texts and images mediate! organise and construct.' - Philip Corrigan! Exeter University Informationen zum Autor Dorothy E. Smith Klappentext 'A crucial book for feminists, for sociology and the new "political anthropological historical school". It informs us how we are differently "situated" in and through social relations, which texts and images mediate, organise and construct.' Philip Corrigan, Professor of Applied Sociology, Exeter University Dorothy E. Smith is Professor of Sociology in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto. She is the author of The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology. Zusammenfassung Texts, Facts and Femininity is a collection of essays which illustrate the full range of work by this leading feminist scholar on social relations as texts. It includes Smith's famous essay K is mentally ill. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. K is mentally ill: The anatomy of a factual account 3. The social organization of subjectivity: an analysis of the micro-politics of a meeting 4. On sociological description: a method from Marx 5. The active text: A textual analysis of the social relations of public textual discourse. 6. Femininity as discourse. 7. Textually mediated social organization....

Autorentext

Dorothy E. Smith

Klappentext

'A crucial book for feminists, for sociology and the new "political anthropological historical school". It informs us how we are differently "situated" in and through social relations, which texts and images mediate, organise and construct.' Philip Corrigan, Professor of Applied Sociology, Exeter University Dorothy E. Smith is Professor of Sociology in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto. She is the author of The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology.

Zusammenfassung
Texts, Facts and Femininity is a collection of essays which illustrate the full range of work by this leading feminist scholar on social relations as texts. It includes Smith's famous essay K is mentally ill.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. K is mentally ill: The anatomy of a factual account 3. The social organization of subjectivity: an analysis of the micro-politics of a meeting 4. On sociological description: a method from Marx 5. The active text: A textual analysis of the social relations of public textual discourse. 6. Femininity as discourse. 7. Textually mediated social organization.