Author : Rosemary Hennessy
Release : 2012-10-11
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 713/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse by : Rosemary Hennessy
Download or read book Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse written by Rosemary Hennessy. This book was released on 2012-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourseconfronts 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.