Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism by Rosemary Hennessy

By Rosemary Hennessy

Drawing on a global variety of examples, from Che Guevarra to "The Crying Game," Profit and Pleasure leads the dialogue of sexuality to a attention of fabric truth and the substance of fellows and women's daily lives.

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12 One of the primary aims of Fraser and Nicholson’s criticism of patriarchy is to dismiss the systemic analysis of social totalities marxist feminists pursue in favor of analysis limited to specific and local contexts. setting the terms —— 27 However, this rejection is premised on a misreading of systemic analysis. One of the indicators of this misreading is evident in the repeated references to “very large” theories in their essay. “Very large” is hardly an adequate descriptor of analyses that extend from a high level of abstraction to a historically specific one, as historical materialism’s systemic analysis aims to do.

But this determining logic is not abstract and monocausal, but rather a structure that is both necessary to capitalism and always historically inflected. The relationship of owner and producer is never unaffected by historical influences, among them cultural forms like race, which Marx mentions (and we might add gender and sexuality). Wood finds in E. P. Thompson’s work a valuable reminder that it is these basic relations of production that we need to pay attention to — what Thompson refers to as “the kernel of human relationships” through which surplus labor is appropriated, a kernel of relationships that imposes its logic at every “level” of society in relations of exploitation, domination, and acquisitiveness.

Marxist feminists understand that patriarchal structures are historically variable and complex, organizing hegemonic meanings through the articulation of several axes of difference: racial, gendered, sexual. Because “patriarchy” has become such a contested term — in some feminist and left analysis even a taboo term these days — before proceeding further I want to pause to explain how I am using this concept and why. As I understand it, patriarchy refers to the structuring of social life — labor, state, and consciousness — such that more social resources and value accrue to men as a group at the expense of women as a group.

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