Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (RLE Feminist Theory)
eBook - ePub

Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (RLE Feminist Theory)

  1. 196 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (RLE Feminist Theory)

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Half Title
  6. Title
  7. Copyright
  8. Dedication
  9. Contents
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction
  12. 1. Materialist Feminism in the Postmodern Academy: Toward a Global Social Analytic
  13. 2. The Materiality of Discourse: Feminism and Post-marxism.
  14. 3. The Feminist Standpoint, Discourse, and Authority: From Women's Lives To ldeology Critique
  15. 4. New Woman, New History
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index