Materialist Feminism and Foucault: The Politics of Appropriation

Hennessy, Rosemary

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“…Her detailed analysis of labor market segmentation, residential segregation or class identity and consciousness exposes the joint involvement of material conditions and of the available rhetoric of race, gender and class in these social phenomena and 'suggest[s] a dialectical relation between material and structural relations and cultural representations' (p. 12). Fraser (1989), Hennessy (1993) and Marx-Ferree, Lorber and Hess (1999) provide similar perspectives and show that, for instance, societal discourses of inequality have material effects in regulating distribution of and access to material resources, and that, reciprocally, material conditions have efficacy in enabling and supporting particular societal discourses. Thus, societal discourses and material conditions provide interlocking constituent processes for an integrative account of the social world, constituents that are mutually enabling and mutually constraining.…”

Section: On the Necessity Of A Societal-level Approachmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Likewise, Wetherell (1998) advocates a synthetic approach in which the 'highly occasioned and situated nature of subject positions' is part of the analytic focus, but is considered in its engagement with a more inclusive notion of discourse (p. 394), and she emphasizes the need analytically to consider local discursive practices within a broader, systemic societal-level analysis that attempts to uncover their genealogical context and 'the social and collective patterning of background conceptions ' (p. 405). Along related lines, Hennessy (1993) points out that only a societal-level notion of ideology 'makes it possible to acknowledge the systematic operation of social totalities like racism across a range of interrelated material practices' (p. xvi).…”

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On the Constitution of ‘Self’ and ‘Mind’

Falmagne

2004

Theory & Psychology

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Abstract. This article introduces a perspective in which questions at a psychological grain of analysis are integrated with a broad societal frame of interpretation, drawing on interdisciplinary feminist writings that provide alternative ways to theorize the social. It is argued that understanding the constitution of subjectivity, 'self' and thought requires a societal-level model of the social with both discursive and material constituents as well as local discursive processes that are deployed within, and configured through, that broader system. It is further argued that the ontological notion of a 'person' (in a specific, non-modern sense of 'person' and in a specific sense of 'ontological') is a conceptually necessary part of the theoretical language, as the anchor for processes of social constitution and as the substrate of agency, where agency is theorized as a multilevel process. One central claim developed in this article is that it is through the dialectic among these societal-level, local, and personal constituents that subjectivity, 'self' and thought are constituted, a 'self' that is assumed to be situated, hybrid, complex, tension-filled and unstable, yet substantial.Key Words: agency, discourse, feminism, mind, poststructuralism, self, sociocultural, subjectivity, thinkingThe social sciences have undergone major transformations in the last few decades, both in theoretical frameworks and in relations between disciplines. New questions are asked, and new, transdisciplinary objects of knowledge are constructed that integrate the societal, the cultural, the symbolic and the individual levels of analysis of social processes. Psychology in particular is slowly emerging from its individualistic and isolationist disciplinary history, as evidenced by the increasing impact of social constructionist perspectives, feminist interdisciplinary analyses, critical race theory or cultural approaches to the study of psychological processes.This article introduces a theoretical perspective that is animated by two convictions. The first is that theorizing about subjectivity and thought requires a broad, macro-level systemic model of the social world, a feature Theory & Psychology

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Section: On the Necessity Of A Societal-level Approachmentioning

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On the Constitution of ‘Self’ and ‘Mind’

Falmagne

2004

Theory & Psychology

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“…If we take seriously the experiences of minoritized and disenfranchised groups who are most subject to structures of domination (e.g., women, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, the poor, and sexual minorities), it is clear that hard work and will are not adequate to bring into being what one desires, either in oneself or in the world more generally. Rosemary Hennessy underlines this perspective in her work Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse, where she notes that "'reality', whether in the form of 'women's lives' or from the feminist standpoint is always social" ( [58], p. 75). It is only through the logic of privilege and domination that the self can be framed as the "unproblematic center of the universe" ( [55], p. 127) and that the effectiveness and possibility of a pledge grounded solely in one's own will could seem possible.…”

Section: Purity Pledges and The High Priest Of The Householdmentioning

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“…In The Power of Abstinence, author Kristine Napier highlights a study where teenage girls stated that they "swapped sexual encounters for the fathering they felt they weren't getting" ( [88], p. 67), and narrative after narrative points out the importance of fathers exercising leadership over their daughters' romantic and sexual lives (or lack thereof) prior to heterosexual marriage ( [74], pp. [43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62]. Across the genre of conservative Christian literature that focuses on the relationship between fathers, daughters, and sexual purity, the role of the father is protector and guide in all areas (not just sexual purity).…”

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Producing High Priests and Princesses: The Father-Daughter Relationship in the Christian Sexual Purity Movement

Gish

2016

Religions

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This article describes and analyzes father-daughter purity balls in the context of the contemporary U.S. American conservative Christian sexual purity movement, with an emphasis on taking the self-understanding of those involved in the movement into account. It shows the ways that the idealization of a hierarchical father-daughter relationship both constructs and reflects sexual purity ideals. The Christian sexual purity teachings frame this father-daughter relationship as an essential part of forming the ideal subject, and as reflective of the right order of the kingdom of God. In the logic of sexual purity, a good man is the strong high-priest leader of the household and the ideal girl is princess-like: white, non-poor, attractive, pure, feminine, delicate, and receptive. She is preparing, under her father's guidance, for heterosexual marriage. Attention to the father-daughter relationship in the sexual purity movement highlights the ways that sexual purity is primarily about subject formation and the ordering of relationships-in families, in the nation, and in the church-and less about the specifics of when particular sexual acts take place or the public health risks that might come from those acts. This exploration also brings into relief the ways that contemporary conservative Christian sexual purity teachings draw from and build on two prominent aspects of contemporary U.S. American popular culture: the important role of the princess figure, and the buying of goods as indispensable to the formation of the subject.

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“…I argue that the current transformations of democracy can be interpreted as a masculinist project that leads to new forms of gendered exclusion. Furthermore, by drawing on feminist theory as a materialist theory that links politics to social structures and social relations (Delphy 1975(Delphy /1997Federici 2012;Hennessy 1993;Jackson 2001), I contend that post-democracy must also be understood as a project that reconfigures the relationship between the political and the social: I argue that post-democracy needs to be conceptualized as androcentric depoliticization of the social. Thus, the overall aim of this paper is to highlight how a materialist feminist perspective broadens the scope of a critique of post-democracy.…”

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Post-democracy and gender: new paradoxes and old tensions

Ludwig

2018

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

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Materialist Feminism and Foucault: The Politics of Appropriation

Cited by 9 publications

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On the Constitution of ‘Self’ and ‘Mind’

On the Constitution of ‘Self’ and ‘Mind’

Producing High Priests and Princesses: The Father-Daughter Relationship in the Christian Sexual Purity Movement

Post-democracy and gender: new paradoxes and old tensions

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