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

Smith, Dorothy E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415032318 ISBN 13: 9780415032315

Publisher: 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.

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Review

"There are several essays which are destined to become classics of their kind . . .."
From reviews of the cloth edition:
-"Times Higher Education Supplement
"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, organize and construct."
-Philip Corrigan, co-author of "The Great Arch

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415032318
• ISBN 13: 9780415032315
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256