Rosemary Hennessy

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Rosemary Hennessy (2 March 1950),^[1] 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 Material feminism.^[3]

Education

She 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

• 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. 

Book chapters

• 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, The SAGE handbook of feminist theory, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, pp. 308–326, ISBN 9781446252413. 

Journal articles

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

See also

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

References

Further reading

• 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. 

External links

• Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rosemary Hennessy's biography.