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taken by the editors – and even more so when considered as a closing bookend of the “Archive” to complement Benston's “political economy of women's liberation” on which it opened. The context of publication of the anthology was indeed the “postmodern logic of late capitalism,” to paraphrase the title of Jamieson's well‐known critique, and it seemed at that time that feminism in the academy was becoming further and further removed from the actual lived experience of women, in both its analysis and its increasingly hermetic forms of expression. Hennessy and Ingraham's anthology, then, can be seen as an attempt both to engage with the postmodern air du temps (fashion) and with black, Third World, and lesbian critiques of early second‐wave Western feminism, and to push back against the discursive deconstruction (to use postmodern scholarship's own vocabulary) of any analysis of the material realities of social relations. Core to that push‐back was a need to recenter the discussion around the socieconomic situation of women, however located in terms of class, race, sexuality, and geopolitics, under a capitalist order that was very far from being in its “late” stages. On the contrary, it had managed not only to renew and strengthen itself in a world that it had “globalized,” but indeed to find new intellectual, cultural, and ideological justifications that were attractive to a certain liberal middle‐class intelligentsia.
Two decades on, the debates Hennessy and Ingraham reopened remain acutely current, whether we are talking about differences among women and ensuing challenges for collective struggle, or the sorts of “idealism” (in a Marxian sense), intellectual elitism, assimilationism and individualistic identity‐difference politics that Delphy, Bunch, Smith, Stabile, and others so criticized. Whether or not the concept of “materialist feminism” continues to have resonance today, and whatever understandings we give it (“French,” “British,” or “US” versions), the political, analytical, and indeed material problems that materialist feminists raised and debated between the 1970s and the 1990s continue to impact on women's lives and thus, necessarily, on feminism.
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