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Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (RLE Feminist Theory) - Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
Rosemary Hennessy
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.
208 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 11, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415635714 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 202 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 340 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Hennessy, Rosemary |
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