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.
- ISBN10 661032011X
- ISBN13 9786610320110
- Publish Date 14 October 1993 (first published 2 August 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Taylor & Francis Group
- Format eBook
- Language English