Is the Everyday World the Problematic? Reflections on Smith's Method of Making Sense of Women's Experience MEG LUXTON AND SUE FINDLAY

Our interest in doing a review of The Everyday World as Problematic stems in part from a desire to acknowledge (and make visible in the milieu of political economy) the important role that Dorothy Smith has played, and continues to play, in the development and defense of feminist scholarship. Working in the 1970s as one of the few feminists in Canada with a secure position in academia, Smith provided a whole generation of feminist students with the rare opportunity of doing their work free from the fetters of anti-feminist scholarship. In collaboration with her students she has contributed significantly to the development of feminist research and to the effort to transform male-stream academic practices and knowledge.