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

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-20137-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 196 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hennessy, Rosemary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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