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Texts, Facts, and Femininity: Exploring the Relations of Ruling

By Dorothy E. Smith

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1990
ISBN
0415032318, 9780415032315
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16486474 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
256\254
DPI
600
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-05-27 21:06:38

Description

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.

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