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Materialist Feminism And The Politics Of Discourse (rle Feminist Theory)
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Full title: | Materialist Feminism And The Politics Of Discourse (rle Feminist Theory) |
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ISBN: | 9780415635714 |
ISBN 10: | 0415635713 |
Authors: | Hennessy Rosemary [editor] |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Edition: | 1 |
Num. pages: | 208 |
Binding: | Hardcover |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2012 |
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Synopsis
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.