What Really Matters?; The Elusive Quality Of The Material In Feminist  

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Rahman, Momin ; Witz, Anne

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Feminist Theory vol. 4 no. 3 (Dec. 2003), page 243–261.
Topik: Effectivity; Gender; Material; Materiality; Materialization; Ontology; Sexuality; The Social
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The concept of the ‘material’ was the focus of much feminist work in the 1970s. It has always been a deeply contested one, even for feminists working within a broadly materialist paradigm of the social. Materialist feminists stretched the concept of the material beyond the narrowly economic in their attempts to develop a social ontology of gender and sexuality. Nonetheless, the quality of the social asserted by an expanded sense of the material – its ‘materiality’ – remains ambiguous. New terminologies of materiality and materialization have been developed within post-structuralist feminist thought and the literature on embodiment. The quality of ‘materiality’ is no longer asserted – as in materialist feminisms – but is problematized through an implicit deferral of ontology in these more contemporary usages, forcing us to interrogate the limits of both materialist and post-structuralist forms of constructionism. What really matters is how these newer terminologies of ‘materiality’ and ‘materialization’ induce us to develop a fuller social ontology of gender and sexuality; one that weaves together social, cultural, experiential and embodied practices.

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