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Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism

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Towards a Materialist Understanding of Sexual Identity
impressive marxist stance

Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism
Rosema Hennessy
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Profit and Pleasure is a groundbreaking attempt to understand the relationship between capitalism and sexual identity. Rosemary Hennessy boldly reorients queer theory away from its preoccupation with psychoanalysis, language, and performance, instead insisting upon close analysis of the structures of late capitalism, labor, and commodification. She argues that sexual identity has always been linked to gender, race, and nationality, but these identities themselves arise from capitalism. As globalization transforms capitalism, it also transforms sexual identity, opening up both new forms of commodification and new opportunities for agency. On the one hand, middle-class gays and lesbians are enjoying unprecedented visibility, but on the other, society still relies on the gendered division of labor that renders certain subjects unequal. Drawing on an international range of examples, from Che Guevarra to "The Crying Game," Profit and Pleasure leads the discussion of sexuality to a consideration of material reality and the substance of men and women's everyday lives.

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Towards a Materialist Understanding of Sexual Identity.......2007-04-09

Even today, with a few rare exceptions, Marxists have ignored sexuality and domestic labor in capitalist production even as it places the production of labor-power as a commodity as its central concern. Extending Lukacs, Hennessy ventures to redress this deficiency by recognizing present notions of sexuality, as a particular historical instance of reification, a category which purports to speak about the body but only understood in its timeless, isolated, commodified form. Thus, sexual identities restrict the power to act by limiting what can be seen or understood. Unhappiness is blamed on one's family, partner, workers or oneself. Social conditions are personalized and psychologized. It makes for good consumers and docile subjects. However, when one considers that domestic conflicts overwhelmingly relate to money, housework, child-rearing, one might come to question whether the heteronormative family isn't really about the cheap production of labor-power.

impressive marxist stance.......2002-07-14

i am very impressed with the author's marxist stance. she is very critical of the currently trendy scholars. it is time to reclaim the marxist materialism. especially for lesbian and gay people.

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