Texts, facts, and femininity : exploring the relations of ruling

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Texts, facts, and femininity : exploring the relations of ruling

Dorothy E. Smith

Routledge, 1993, c1990

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Bibliography: p. 235-241

Includes indexes

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'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.

Table of Contents

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.

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