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Rosemary Hennessy

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Rosemary Hennessy
Born (1950-03-02) March 2, 1950 (age 74)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSyracuse University
Known forDirector of Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University

Rosemary Hennessy (born March 2, 1950)[1] is an American academic and socialist feminist. She is a professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. She has been a part of the faculty at Rice since 2006.[2]

She has written extensively on materialist feminism.[3]

Education

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Hennessy received her Ph.D in English from Syracuse University, her M.A. in English from Temple University, and her B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.[4]

Selected bibliography

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Books

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  • Hennessy, Rosemary (1993). Materialist feminism and the politics of discourse. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415904797.
  • Hennessy, Rosemary; Ingraham, Chrys (1997). Materialist feminism: a reader in class, difference, and women's lives. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415916349.
  • Hennessy, Rosemary (2000). Profit and pleasure sexual identities in late capitalism. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415924269.
  • Hennessy, Rosemary (2013). Fires on the border: the passionate politics of labor organizing on the Mexican frontera. S.l: University Of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816679621.
  • Hennessy, Rosemary (2023). In the Company of Radical Women Writers. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9781517914905.

Book chapters

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  • Hennessy, Rosemary (2014), "Thinking sex materially: Marxist, Socialist, and related feminist approaches", in Evans, Mary; Hemmings, Clare; Henry, Marsha; Johnstone, Hazel; Madhok, Sumi; Plomien, Ania; Wearing, Sadie (eds.), The SAGE handbook of feminist theory, Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE, pp. 308–326, ISBN 9781446252413.

Journal articles

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  • Hennessy, Rosemary; Mohana, Rajeswari (1989). "The construction of woman in three popular texts of empire: Towards a critique of materialist feminism". Textual Practice. 3 (3): 323–359. doi:10.1080/09502368908582066.
  • Hennessy, Rosemary (February 1993). "Women's lives/feminist knowledge: feminist standpoint as ideology critique". Hypatia. 8 (1): 14–34. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1993.tb00626.x. S2CID 143470056.
  • Hennessy, Rosemary (Summer 1993). "Queer theory: a review of the "Differences" special issue and Wittig's "The straight mind"". Signs. 18 (4): 964–973. doi:10.1086/494854. JSTOR 3174918. S2CID 143541345.
  • Hennessy, Rosemary (1994). "Queer theory, left politics". Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society. 7 (3): 85–111. doi:10.1080/08935699408658114.
  • Hennessy, Rosemary (Winter 1994–1995). "Queer visibility in commodity culture". Cultural Critique. 29 (29): 31–76. doi:10.2307/1354421. JSTOR 1354421.
  • Hennessy, Rosemary (2006). "Returning to reproduction queerly: sex, labor, need". Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society. 18 (3): 387–395. doi:10.1080/08935690600748074. S2CID 143523306.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Hennessy, Rosemary". Library of Congress. Retrieved July 28, 2014. CIP t.p. (Rosemary Hennessy) data sheet (b. Mar. 2, 1950)
  2. ^ "Rosemary Hennessy". Rice Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Archived from the original on June 3, 2012. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  3. ^ Hennessy, Rosemary (1993). Materialist feminism and the politics of discourse. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415904797.
  4. ^ "Rosemary Hennessy". Rice Department of English. Archived from the original on April 19, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2013.

Further reading

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  • Ojeda, Martha (2006). NAFTA from below: maquiladora workers, farmers, and indigenous communities speak out on the impact of free trade in Mexico. San Antonio, Tex: Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras. ISBN 9781934247006.
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