Assister views the unhappy marriage of Marxism and structuralism from a feminist perspective, arguing that Althusser's reinterpretation of Marx was doomed to failure. She disputes the extent to which postructuralism can claim to have made any significant contribution to feminist thinking, looking in particular at the work of Luce Irigariay.
But she concludes with a provocative defence of certain themes and pre-occupations in structuralism and poststructuralism. She demonstrates that in at least one respect they have something of very real value to offer contemporary feminists seeking to repudiate the bourgeois humanism of 'radical feminism'.
- ISBN10 0745302947
- ISBN13 9780745302942
- Publish Date 1 January 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 January 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pluto Press
- Format Hardcover (Library Binding)
- Pages 192
- Language English