Person

Smith, Dorothy E.

1926-2022

Dorothy Edith Smith (née Place) was born in Northallerton in northern England. Her father, Tom Place, was a timber merchant and her mother, Dorothy Foster Place, was a chemist who had spent time in jail alongside Sylvia Parkhurst. Smith was accepted into the London School of Economics and received a bachelor's degree in Sociology in 1955. She married William Smith, an American who was studying in London at that time. They both moved to Berkeley and attended the University of California, but William Smith later left his family. Dorothy Smith joined the faculty at Berkeley and, being the only woman, was often ignored by her colleagues. In 1968, she moved to Vancouver and joined the University of British Columbia. Along with others, she created a women's studies program at the university, which, at the time, was only the second in Canada. In recognition of her contributions to the "transformation of sociology" and for extending the boundaries of "feminist standpoint theory" to "include race, class, and gender," Smith received numerous awards from the American Sociological Association, including the American Sociological Association's Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award in 1999 and the Jessie Bernard Award for Feminist Sociology in 1993.

Sociologist, Feminist.

Clay Risen, Dorothy E. Smith, Groundbreaker in Feminist Sociology, Dies at 95, The New York Times, 16 June 2022. (accessed, June 2022).

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