Texts, Facts and Femininity: Exploring the Relations of Ruling

by Dorothy E. Smith

Texts, Facts and Femininity is a collection of essays which illustrate the full range of work by this leading feminist scholar on social relations as texts. It includes Smith's famous essay K is mentally ill.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Dorothy Edith Smith CM (born July 6, 1926) is a Canadian sociologist with research interests in a variety of disciplines, including women's studies, feminist theory, psychology, and educational studies, as well as in certain subfields of sociology, such as the sociology of knowledge, family studies, and methodology. Smith founded the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist standpoint theory and institutional ethnography.

Reviews

[Tara Brabazon]

I expected more from this book. I wanted it to be astonishing. It is not.

It is strong and evocative in the exploration of evidence. Much more theorization of power was required.