Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on December 9, 2008
Community Development Journal 2009 44(1):123-127; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsn035
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Classic Texts: no. 11
Address for correspondence: Rosie Meade, Department of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland; email: r.meade@ucc.ie
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| Jo Freeman. The Tyranny of Structurelessness (c. 1972)1 |
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This is the 11th contribution in our occasional series. On this occasion, Rosie Meade, Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at University College, Cork, and member of our Editorial Board, reflects on the importance of Jo Freeman's The Tyranny of Structurelessness.
In each contribution, the author reflects on a classic text in the field of community development, which they feel has influenced them or the practice of community development more widely. The text should have been around for some time, we suggest about 25 years, so that its impact can be seen clearly over a long timespan.
Readers are invited to submit ideas for contributions to this series: they can either be a single text, which might be typical of the author's canon or perhaps the keynote writings of a particular author; two or three from a genre; or two or three from the work of a particular author. If you