Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (RLE Feminist Theory) Hardback
Edited by Rosemary Hennessy
Part of the Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory series
Hardback
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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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:202 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/10/2012
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- ISBN:9780415635714
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:202 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/10/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415635714
