Carol Smart presents a new gendered analysis of the power of law and argues for a feminist post- structuralist approach. She comments on pornography, as well as discussing recent research on rape trials and abortion legislation.[...]
First published in 1977, Women, Crime and Criminology presents a feminist critique of classical and contemporary theories of female criminality. It addresses the issue that criminology literature has, throughout history, been predominantly male-oriented, always treating female criminality as margina[...]
This text offers empirical material and theoretical analysis in order to try and give a fresh understanding of the nature of family practices in modern societies.[...]
For more than a decade, Carol Smart has been at the forefront of debates about the sociology of the family. Yet she has become frustrated by the fixation of many commentators with the supposed decline of commitment, and even the decline of the possibility of family life.[...]
Vi lever i en tid då tak över huvudet kommit att betyda allt från en form av karriär och ett livsstilsprojekt till en ouppnåelig dröm. Fronesis nr 42-43 tittar närmare på hur drömmarna om hemmet blev så skilda och vilka politiska processer som ledde fram till dagens situation.[...]
In The Craft of Knowledge experienced researchers come together to explore what really matters to them in the process of doing research, providing personal accounts of what can often be the trying or painful processes of creating research-based knowledge and understandings of social life. Sociologis[...]