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Beverly Bain

"Uncovering Conceptual Practices: Bringing into 'Lived Consciousness' Feminists' Activities on the Toronto Police Sexual Assault Audit and the Follow-up Sexual Assault Audit Committee" in Canadian Women Studies, 28 (1)

[Sarah Ahmed], in her discussion of how documents get taken up as signs of good performance and as expressions of "commitment," found that those responsible for compliance in the institution often "perform an image of themselves as doing a good job" (2007: 594). She refers to this as "doing the document" instead of "doing the […]