Here's a forwarded message about a new list, also available on the
"csf" listserv. Stefanie/ECOFEM Co-ordinator
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ANNOUNCING a new discussion list on materialist feminism called
MATFEM. Materialist feminism represents a powerful theoretical/activist
perspective which brings together feminists from all disciplines, united
in their desire to build a feminist project for the twenty-first century.
This is why we created MATFEM, so we can establish personal and
professional networks and, in the process, engage in the collective
production of materialist feminist knowledge, frameworks, and politics.
Materialist feminist work is distinguished by the claim that the critical
perspective of historical materialism is historically necessary and
empowering for feminism's oppositional political project. Materialist
feminism calls for a consideration of the ways class, divisions of labor,
state power, as well as gendered, racial, national and sexual
subjectivities, bodies, and knowledges are all crucial to local and global
social production. This systemic view--the argument that the materiality
of the social consists of class, divisions of labor, state power, and
ideology--is one of the distinguishing features of materialist feminist
analysis.
We welcome scholars from all disciplines. We especially encourage
the participation of graduate students through an atmosphere that is
supportive as well as intellectually stimulating. MATFEM is conceived not
only as a discussion list but also as a future archive of working papers
and published papers (with copyrights cleared by publishers) accessible
via ftp, gopher and world wide web. We would like, therefore, to invite
anyone interested in this theoretical perspective to participate by
exchanging ideas, information, and by contributing to what we hope will
become a supportive intellectual community and a substantial Materialist
Feminist archive or "virtual library."
Editors:
Martha E. Gimenez, Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO.
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Rosemary Hennessy, English, SUNY at Albany, Albany, N.Y.
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Chrys Ingraham, Sociology and Criminal Justice, Russell Sage College, N.Y.
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