Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse - Couverture souple

Hennessy, Rosemary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 041590479X ISBN 13 : 9780415904797

Editeur : Routledge, 1993

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 041590479X
• ISBN 13: 9780415904797
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible