Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives

by Rosemary Hennessy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415916348
• ISBN13: 9780415916349
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"