De-Facing Power (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521780797)

In this major contribution to the power debate, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view of power as something powerful people have and use. Rather than seeing it as having a "face," she argues for a view of power as a complex network of social boundaries--norms, identities, institutions--which define individual freedom, for "powerful" and "powerless" alike. The book's argument is supported by a comparative analysis of relationships within two ethnically-diverse educational settings--a low-income, predominantly African-American urban school; and an affluent, predominantly white, suburban school.

Author: Clarissa Rile Hayward
ISBN-10: 0521780799
ISBN-13: 9780521780797
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2000
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d