During the 1980s, capitalism triumphantly secured its global reach, anti-communist ideologies hammered home socialism's inherent failure, the New Left increasingly moved into the professional middle class--and many of feminism's earlier priorities were marginalized. "Identity politics," often formulated in terms of social reconstructionism or multiculturalism, has increasingly suppressed materialist feminism's systematic perspective, replacing it with discourse analysis or cultural politics. Materialist Feminism: A Reader argues against the retreat...
During the 1980s, capitalism triumphantly secured its global reach, anti-communist ideologies hammered home socialism's inherent failure, the New Left...
This volume confronts the impasses in materialist feminist work on rethinking 'woman' as a discursively constructed subject. Rosemary Hennessy considers the work of Kristeva, Foucault, Laclau and Mouffe, and argues for a materialist feminist re-articulation of discourse as ideology.
This volume confronts the impasses in materialist feminist work on rethinking 'woman' as a discursively constructed subject. Rosemary Hennessy conside...
The history of the maquiladoras has been punctuated by workers' organized resistance to abysmal working and living conditions. Over years of involvement in such movements, Rosemary Hennessy was struck by an elusive but significant feature of these struggles: the extent to which organizing is driven by attachments of affection and antagonism, belief, betrayal, and identification.
What precisely is the "affective" dimension of organizing for justice? Are affects and emotions the same? And how can their value be calculated? Fires on the Border takes up these...
The history of the maquiladoras has been punctuated by workers' organized resistance to abysmal working and living conditions. Over year...
When Profit and Pleasure was first released in 2001, Rosemary Hennessy made the daring case for a marxist feminist analysis of sexual identity and argued for the power of revolutionary love. This 2nd edition includes a new introductory essay highlighting the key developments in intersecting scholarship that have arisen since the book's original publication. Reorienting queer theory away from its preoccupation with psychoanalysis, language, and performance, the text insists upon close analysis of the structures of late capitalism, labor, and commodification. Profit and...
When Profit and Pleasure was first released in 2001, Rosemary Hennessy made the daring case for a marxist feminist analysis of sexual identi...
When Profit and Pleasure was first released in 2001, Rosemary Hennessy made the daring case for a marxist feminist analysis of sexual identity and argued for the power of revolutionary love. This 2nd edition includes a new introductory essay highlighting the key developments in intersecting scholarship that have arisen since the book's original publication. Reorienting queer theory away from its preoccupation with psychoanalysis, language, and performance, the text insists upon close analysis of the structures of late capitalism, labor, and commodification. Profit and...
When Profit and Pleasure was first released in 2001, Rosemary Hennessy made the daring case for a marxist feminist analysis of sexual identi...
