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Can I read Texts, Facts, and Femininity : Exploring the Relations of Ruling on EtoBox?
Texts, Facts, and Femininity : Exploring the Relations of Ruling by Dorothy E. Smith is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Texts, Facts, and Femininity : Exploring the Relations of Ruling about?
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.
Who reads Texts, Facts, and Femininity : Exploring the Relations of Ruling?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dorothy E. Smith
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415032315
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Social Science
- Rating
- 2 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-24