Rosemary Hennessy

Rosemary Hennessy
Born	(1950-03-02) 2 March 1950
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Syracuse University
Known for	Director of Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University

Rosemary Hennessy (2 March 1950), 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.

She has written extensively on Material feminism.

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.

Selected bibliography

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 (eds.), The SAGE handbook of feminist theory, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, pp. 308–326, ISBN 9781446252413. {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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. 3 (3). Taylor and Francis: 323–359. doi:10.1080/09502368908582066. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Hennessy, Rosemary (February 1993). "Women's lives/feminist knowledge: feminist standpoint as ideology critique". Hypatia. 8 (1). Wiley: 14–34. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1993.tb00626.x. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• 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. 18 (4). The University of Chicago Press via JSTOR: 964–973. doi:10.2307/3174918. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Hennessy, Rosemary (1994). "Queer theory, left politics". Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society. 7 (3). Taylor and Francis: 85–111. doi:10.1080/08935699408658114. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Hennessy, Rosemary (Winter 1994–1995). "Queer visibility in commodity culture". Cultural Critique. 29. University of Minnesota Press via JSTOR: 31–76. doi:10.2307/1354421. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Hennessy, Rosemary (2006). "Returning to reproduction queerly: sex, labor, need". Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society. 18 (3). Taylor and Francis: 387–395. doi:10.1080/08935690600748074. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)

See also

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

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.