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Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (RLE Feminist Theory) (Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory) - Hardcover

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9780415635714: Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (RLE Feminist Theory) (Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory)
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ISBN 10: 0415635713 ISBN 13: 9780415635714
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

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.

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Rosemary Hennessy

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415635713
ISBN 13 
9780415635714
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
202
Editor
Hennessy Rosemary
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