Texts, Facts, and Femininity: Exploring the Relations of Ruling - Couverture rigide

Smith, Dorothy E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415032318 ISBN 13 : 9780415032315

Editeur : Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

Included here is Professor Smith's essay "K is Mentally Ill", which explores the concept of mental illness as a method of reading and writing a factual account of someone becoming mentally ill. There are also essays on femininity as discourse; the social relations of description in the context of a sociological study of the news; the micro-politics of a meeting; the "structuring" of power through texts telling different versions of a confrontation between police and street people. The book concludes with a discussion of the distinctive properties of social organization and the relations mediated by texts. "Texts, Facts and Femininity" will be of interest to students of women's studies, sociology, social theory, cultural theory, communications and psychology.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

'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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415032318
• ISBN 13: 9780415032315
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible