{"product_id":"materialist-feminisms-isbn-9781557861856","title":"Materialist Feminisms","description":"\u003ci\u003eMaterialist Feminisms\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the crucial theoretical and political debates that have determined the course of British and American feminism over the last thirty years. As intellectual terrain has shifted during these decades from Marxism to cultural materialism and poststructuralist literary theory, questions of race and ethnicity, sexuality, postcoloniality, and green politics have converged and sometimes collided with the categories within feminism, but analyze many of the most important texts and movements of contemporary cultural theory.  \u003cp\u003eOffering not so much a unified history as an analysis of important moments within these debates, this book examines the work of such feminist theorists as MichUle Barrett, Judith Butler, Rosalind Coward, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, the m\/f collective, Tania Modleski, Jacqueline Rose, Gayle Rubin, Hortense Spillers, and Gayatri Spivak. \u003ci\u003eMaterialist Feminisms\u003c\/i\u003e includes new, exemplary readings of feminist detective, African-American, and postcolonial fiction, three kinds of textures commodity currently fetishized in the literary marketplace. What might the success of these kinds of writing signify about politics and desire in contemporary Anglo-American culture?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemonstrating how the poststructuralis critique of essences and identities need not end in a complete paralysis of political action, as has sometimes been claimed, \u003ci\u003eMaterialist Feminisms\u003c\/i\u003e argues that feminism, soicalism, and deconstruction are not theoretical dead ends, but names for unfinished business.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Argument vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Beyond the Marxist--Feminist Encounter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Origins UK and US 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Institutionalizing Feminism 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Deconstruction and Beyond 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Feminism and Cultural Critique \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Feminism and the History of the Novel 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 How PC Can a White Girl Be When Her Sisters of Color Can Represent Themselves? 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 History and Poststructuralism 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III The Politics of Contemporary Theory \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 The Politics of Essence 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Identity and Sexuality 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Theory \"Race,\" Imperialist Fractures, and Postcolonial Subjects 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Towards a Green Cultural Criticism 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Names 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Subjects 253\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDonna Landry and Gerald McLean are the authors of Materialist Feminisms, published by Wiley.   \u003ci\u003eMaterialist Feminisms\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the crucial theoretical and political debates that have determined the course of British and American feminism over the last thirty years. As intellectual terrain has shifted during these decades from Marxism to cultural materialism and poststructuralist literary theory, questions of race and ethnicity, sexuality, postcoloniality, and green politics have converged and sometimes collided with the categories within feminism, but analyze many of the most important texts and movements of contemporary cultural theory.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering not so much a unified history as an analysis of important moments within these debates, this book examines the work of such feminist theorists as MichUle Barrett, Judith Butler, Rosalind Coward, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, the m\/f collective, Tania Modleski, Jacqueline Rose, Gayle Rubin, Hortense Spillers, and Gayatri Spivak. \u003ci\u003eMaterialist Feminisms\u003c\/i\u003e includes new, exemplary readings of feminist detective, African-American, and postcolonial fiction, three kinds of textures commodity currently fetishized in the literary marketplace. 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