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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786451203321

Autore

Hennessy Rosemary

Titolo

Materialist feminism and the politics of discourse / / Rosemary Hennessy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-20136-X

0-203-08743-7

1-283-86322-7

1-136-20137-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 177 pages)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory ; ; v. 21

Disciplina

305.42/01

305.4201

Soggetti

Feminist theory

Marxist criticism

Materialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1993.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This work explores the impasses in materialist feminist work on rethinking the concept of woman as a discursively constructed subject. It 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.