Simplement culturel ?
In this essay I consider certain kinds of criticisms against the claims of cultural studies, and suggest that those who fault the turn to «culture” for vacating the “material” domains of life miscontrue the distinction between culture and material relations. I suggest that the distinction between cu...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Français |
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2001
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | In this essay I consider certain kinds of criticisms against the claims of cultural studies, and suggest that those who fault the turn to «culture” for vacating the “material” domains of life miscontrue the distinction between culture and material relations. I suggest that the distinction between culturalist and materialist positions is often used tactically to dismiss or devalue those political efforts, especially recently gay ones, as “merely cultural”. I argue against Nancy Fraser's view that gay politics is concerned with cultural representations of gayness which are injurious. I claim that the gay movement is centrally concerned with questions of equal access to economic and legal benefits, and that these concerns are cultural and material at once. I also argue that Marxist traditions can be used to show how the distinction between material and cultural is one that is contrived by capitalism. I also argue that Marx identified the 'reprOduction of persons and the family' as part of a properly materialist conception of production, and that it would therefore make sense to include those sexual movements seeking to produce new notions of subjectivity and challenge the hegemony of the heterosexual family as materialist and cultural at once. |
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