Texts, facts, and femininity : exploring the relations of ruling
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Texts, facts, and femininity : exploring the relations of ruling
Routledge, 1990
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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.
Table of Contents
- K is mentally ill - the anatomy of a factual account
- the social organization of subjectivity - an analysis of the micro-politics of a meeting
- on sociological description - a method from Marx
- the active text - a textual analysis of the social relations of public textual discourse
- femininity as discourse
- textually mediated social organization.
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