Fields of Play: Constructing an Academic Life / Edition 1

by Laurel Richardson

Overview

How do the specific circumstances in which we write affect what we write? How does what we write affect who we become? How can we maintain professsional and personal integrity in today's university? In a series of traditional and experimental writings, a culmination of ten years of works-in-progress, Laurel Richardson records an intellectual journey, displacing boundaries and creating new ways of reading and writing. Applying the sociological imagination to the writing process, she connects her life to her work.

Deeply engaging, movingly written with grace, elegance, and clarity, the book stimulates readers to situate their own writing in personal, social, and political contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813523798
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	02/01/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	741,839
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

LAUREL RICHARDSON is a professor of sociology, graduate faculty in women's studies, and visiting professor in the College of Education at the Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Troubling Theory
Part 2: Crossing Boundaries
Part 3: Fielding Ethics
Part 4: Writing Legitimacy
Part 5: Remapping Fields
Part 6: Arriving Where We Started
References
Indexes