Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (RLE Feminist Theory)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23787635 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Rosemary Hennessy |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | US-Indian strategic cooperation into the 21st century (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203087435 |
| OpenAlex | W4234400744 |
| ISBN | 9780203087435 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
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.
Aesthetics · Articulation (sociology) · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Feminist theory · Ideology · Materialism · Materiality (auditing) · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |