| Description |
1 online resource (207 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory |
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Routledge library editions. Feminist theory.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 ideol |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminist theory.
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Marxist criticism.
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Feminist theory
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Marxist criticism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136201370 |
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1136201378 |
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