Rosemary Hennessy

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Rosemary Hennessy (born 2 March 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

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

• 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:
  ISBN 9781446252413
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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
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• Hennessy, Rosemary (February 1993). "Women's lives/feminist knowledge: feminist standpoint as ideology critique". Hypatia. 8 (1): 14–34.
  S2CID 143470056
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• Hennessy, Rosemary (Summer 1993). "Queer theory: a review of the "Differences" special issue and Wittig's "The straight mind"". Signs. 18 (4): 964–973.
  S2CID 143541345
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• Hennessy, Rosemary (1994). "Queer theory, left politics". Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society. 7 (3): 85–111.
  doi:10.1080/08935699408658114
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• Hennessy, Rosemary (Winter 1994–1995). "Queer visibility in commodity culture". Cultural Critique. 29 (29): 31–76.
  JSTOR 1354421
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• Hennessy, Rosemary (2006). "Returning to reproduction queerly: sex, labor, need". Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society. 18 (3): 387–395.
  S2CID 143523306
  .

• Material feminism
• Double burden
• Economic materialism
• Feminist economics
• Monique Wittig
• Christine Delphy

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