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March 26, 2003 INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN FEMINIST VISITS UNM APRIL 15-18 Internationally known feminist theorist Dorothy E. Smith will give the lecture "From Women's Standpoint: Inventing a Sociology," at the University of New Mexico Wednesday, April 16, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Ortega Hall Reading Room. A reception will be held in the lounge following the lecture. Smith is professor emerita at the University of Toronto Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education. For more than 30 years she developed a feminist sociology from a woman's standpoint. Her most recent work focused on the significance of texts for the organization of power. "Our university is fortunate to host one of the world's most accomplished feminist theorists. I hope that both the university community and the general public will take advantage of this opportunity to become acquainted with Dorothy Smith, whom I regard as one of my field's great treasures," said UNM Associate Professor of Sociology Jane C. Hood, visit organizer. Smith's April 15-18 visit to the UNM campus, sponsored by the Department of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education Department of Language, Literacy, and Social Studies, will also include meetings with groups of graduate students and faculty and a guest appearance at a graduate ethnography seminar. In addition to hundreds of articles and book chapters, Smith is the author of "The Everyday World As Problematic: A Feminist Sociology" (1987), "The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge" (1990), "Text, Facts and Femininity: Exploring The Relations of Ruling" (1990) and "Writing the Social: Critique, Theory and Investigations" (1998). Smith is the recipient of a number of awards and honors including honorary doctorates from several Canadian universities, the American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Award, 1993, and the American Sociological Association's Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award (1999). ###

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