Rosemary Hennessy: 2 books
Fires on the Border
The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The history of the maquiladoras has been punctuated by workers’ organized resistance to abysmal working and living conditions. Over years of involvement in such movements, Rosemary Hennessy was struck by an elusive but significant feature of these struggles: the extent to which organizing is driven...
Profit and Pleasure
Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Profit and Pleasure, Second Edition is a classic intervention into the relationship between capitalism and sexual identity. Rosemary Hennessy boldly reorients queer theory toward an up-close analysis of the structures of consumption, labor, and commodification, revealing how sexual identity—in the...