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Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender LUDIC LEMINISM $ < Ay , AND AFTER Postmodernism, Desire, and Labor in Late Capitalism TERESA L. LRERT MICHIGAN Ludic Feminism and After Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender brings books on timely issues and controversies to an interdisciplinary audience. The series explores gender- related topics and illuminates the issues involved in current debates in femi- nist scholarship and across the disciplines. Series Editorial Board Ruth Behar Miige Gocek Anne Herrmann Carol Karlsen Patricia Simons Domna Stanton Abigail Stewart Christina Brooks Whitman Titles in the series Michelle Fine Disruptive Voices: The Possibilities of Feminist Research Susan D. Clayton and Faye J. Crosby Justice, Gender, and Affirmative Action Janice Doane and Devon Hodges From Klein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the “Good Enough” Mother Jill Dolan Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance Judith Newton Starting Over: Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique Jill G. Morawski Practicing Feminisms, Reconstructing Psychology: Notes on a Liminal Science Mary S. Gossy Freudian Slips: Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue Teresa L. Ebert Ludic Feminism and After: Postmodernism, Desire, and Labor in Late Capitalism j ff Ac f ff, Z fi F f df oO jiyf £ f Ludic Feminism and After Postmodernism, Desire, and Labor in Late Capitalism Teresa L. Ebert Ann Arbor THE LUINIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS For Mas’ud Zavarzadeh Copyright © by the University of Michigan 1996 All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper 1999 1998 1997 1996 4 3 2 1 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ebert, Teresa L., 1951- Ludic feminism and after : postmodernism, desire, and labor in late capitalism / Teresa L. Ebert. Dp. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-472-09576-5 (alk. paper). — ISBN 0-472-06576-9 pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Feminist theory. 2. Postmodernism. I. Title. HQ1190.E24 1995 305-42’01—dc20 95-4333 iP. Acknowledgments Parts of this book have appeared in earlier forms. Grateful acknowledg- ment is made to the following authors and journals for permission to reprint previously published materials. College English for an earlier version of “The ‘Difference’ of Postmodern Feminism,” College English 53, no. 8 (December 1991), published by the National Council of Teachers of English. Cultural Critique for “Ludic Feminism, the Body, Performance, and Labor: Bringing Materialism Back into Feminist Cultural Studies,” Cultural Critique 23 (winter 1992-93), published by permission by Oxford University Press. Genders for “The Crisis of (Ludic) Socialist Feminism,” Genders 21 (spring 1995). By permission of New York University Press. Kostas Myrsiades and Jerry McGuire for “Subalterity and Feminism in the Moment of the (Post)modern: The Materialist Re-Turn,” reprinted from Order and Partialities: Theory, Pedagogy, and the ‘Postcolonial,’ edited by Kostas Myrsiades and Jerry McGuire (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995). By permission of the State University of New York Press. © 1995. Rethinking Marxism for “Surplus Enjoyment in the Post-al Real,” Rethinking Marxism 7, no. 3 (fall 1994). Transformation for “(Untimely) Critiques for a Red Feminism,” Transforma- tion 1 (spring 1995). Women’s Review of Books for “The Politics of the Outrageous,” Women’s Review of Books 9, no. 1 (October 1991); and for response, Women’s Review of Books 9, no. 3 (December 1991). Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/ludicfeminismaft0000eber Contents Preface Part 1 Theorizing Materialism Chapter 1. Feminism, Critique, and the Matter of Materialism Chapter 2. Cyborgs, Lust, and Labor: The Crisis of Ludic Socialist Feminism Part 2 Beyond Ludic Politics Chapter 3. Feminism and Resistance Postmodernism 129 Chapter 4. Post-al Politics: Maverick Feminism and Emancipation 181 Chapter 5. Excess-ive Bodies: Essentialism, Indeterminacy, and Retrofeminism 233 Chapter 6. Women and_/as the Subaltern 283 Notes 303 Bibliography 309 Index 333 = in ~ ; eeeb q aee 2
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