Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse

Edited by Rosemary Hennessy

Publisher: Routledge

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 11 October 2012

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ISBN: 0415635713 ISBN 13: 9780415635714

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Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse confronts the impasses in materialist feminist work on rethinking 'woman' as a discursively constructed subject. The book looks at the problem of examining critically the social dimensions on which theories of discourse are premised: how such theories understand 'materiality'; the relation between 'women's experience' and feminist politics, and that between history and discourse. Rosemary Hennessy considers the work of Kristeva, Foucault, Laclau and Mouffe, and argues for a materialist feminist re-articulation of discourse as ideology. Concerns over identity and difference are incorporated into a rewriting of materialist feminism's analysis of women's oppression across capitalist and patriarchal structures. In adapting postmodernist theories in this way, Hennessy develops a project of social change, where feminism, while maintaining its specificity, is necessarily aligned with other emancipatory movements. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Routledge

City: London

Pages: 208

More info: height 234 mm width 156 mm weight 471 gr

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 305.4201

Record updated at: 14 May, 2013 time: 13:42

Summary Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Materialist Feminism in the Postmodern Academy: Toward a Global Social Analytic 2. The Materiality of Discourse: Feminism and Post-Marxism 3. The Feminist Standpoint, Discourse and Authority: From Women's Lives to Ideology Critique 4. New Woman, New History. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Top page

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