Product Description: '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...read more

Product Description: In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the contributors utilize their research to reveal how institutional relations and regimes are organized...read more

Product Description: Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving on the PTA can all have profound effects on what occurs within school. Based on longitudinal interviews with mothers of school-age children, this book exposes the effects mothers' work has on educational systems as a whole and the ways in which inequalities of educational opportunities are reproduced...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays, written by Dorothy Smith over the past eight years, is a long-awaited treasure by one of the world's foremost social thinkers. In it, Smith turns her wit and common sense on the prevailing discourses of sociology, political economy, philosophy, and popular culture, at the same time developing her own sociological and feminist practice in unexpected and remarkable directions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Book by Smith, Dorothy E.

Product Description: "Doing It the Hard Way" brings together the writings of the late Sally Hacker. More than simply a collection of essays, this volume includes a series of interviews conducted by sociologist-feminist Dorothy Smith during the last year of Sally Hacker's life...read more

Looks at how women have been excluded from man's culture, suggests a feminist perspective on sociology, and discuss research strategies (view table of contents)