What Really Matters
The Elusive Quality of the Material in Feminist Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4367193 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Momin Rahman (0000-0002-9305-6526, University of Strathclyde, corresponding author), Anne Witz (University of Leicester) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 243-261 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14647001030043001 |
| OpenAlex | W2084501505 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 26 |
The concept of the 'material' was the focus of much feminist work in the 1970s. It has always been a deeply contested one, even for feminists working within a broadly materialist paradigm of the social. Materialist feminists stretched the concept of the material beyond the narrowly economic in their attempts to develop a social ontology of gender and sexuality.Nonetheless, the quality of the social asserted by an expanded sense of thematerial - its 'materiality' - remains ambiguous. New terminologies of materiality and materialization have been developed within post-structuralist feminist thought and the literature on embodiment. The quality of 'materiality' is no longer asserted - as inmaterialist feminisms - but is problematized through an implicit deferral of ontology in these more contemporary usages, forcing us to interrogate the limits of both materialist and post-structuralist forms of constructionism. What really matters is how these newer terminologies of 'materiality' and 'materialization' induce us to develop a fuller social ontology of gender and sexuality; one that weaves together social, cultural, experiential and embodied practices
Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist theory · Human sexuality · Materialism · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,45 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2021 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |