Results for "Hennessy, Rosemary"

Recovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s—a decade unnervingly similar to our own   In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers—Black... Read More about In the Company of Radical Women Writers

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 formul... Read More about Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives

Profit and Pleasure, Second Edition is a classic intervention into the relationship between capitalism and sexual identity. Rosemary Hennessy boldly reorients queer theory toward an up-close analysis of the structures of consumption, labor, and commodification, revealing how sexual identity-in the v... Read More about Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism

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 ... Read More about Fires on the Border: The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera

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 ... Read More about Fires on the Border: The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera

Recovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s—a decade unnervingly similar to our own   In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers—Black... Read More about In the Company of Radical Women Writers