Fields of Play: Constructing an Academic Life

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.

Author: Laurel Richardson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 02/01/1997
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.14w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780813523798

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.