1st Edition
Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (RLE Feminist Theory)
Edited By Rosemary Hennessy
Copyright 1993
202 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 ‘women’s experience’ and feminist politics, and... Read more
Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Materialist Feminism in the Postmodern Academy: Toward a Global Social Analytic 2. The Materiality of Discourse: Feminism and Post-Marxism 3. The Feminist Standpoint, Discourse and Authority: From Women’s Lives to Ideology Critique 4. New Woman, New History. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Rosemary Hennessy
