First published in 1984, Social Texts and Context illustrates the ways in which familiar psychological concepts - femininity, the environment, groups, the self - are constructed in discourse.

Jonathan Potter, Peter Stringer and Margaret Wetherell

New Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Writing Gender 2. Character and Environment 3. Some Unsatisfactory Positions 4. From Action to Discourse 5. Dissecting Factual Texts 6. Victims of Realread 7. Elites and Stereotypes 8. The Discursive Self Notes Bibliography Author Index Subject Index