SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: The German Ideology, Radical Feminism, Feminist Sociology
8 May 2016
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Biographical sketch of dorothy smith: early life. Birth name was dorothy place, she was born in england (1926) Growing up in a middle class family, had included multiple generations of activist women: university education. Graduated with a ba from the london school of economics (1955) While she was there, she met her future husband william smith (they later married) Left england and went to the us, california where she started to work on her phd. University of california (berkeley) did her phd under erving goffman (her supervisor) After this dorothy and her husband divorced, she ended up keeping her husbands last name: university career. Spent time teaching at various universities over the next couple years. Lecturer at university of california, ended up going back to england, then worked as a lecturer at the university of essex. Came back to north america, landed a position as an assistant professor at university of british columbia.
