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

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ISBN 10: 0415635713 ISBN 13: 9780415635714

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull'autore

Rosemary Hennessy

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415635713
• ISBN 13: 9780415635714
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 202
• Redattore: Hennessy Rosemary
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania