Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (RLE Feminist Theory)Author :
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Published : Thursday 11 October 2012
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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 `womens 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 feminisms analysis of womens 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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