{"product_id":"9783032220271","title":"The Marxist Foundations of the Oppositional Gaze A Paradigm Shift in Questioning the Capitalist Moment","description":"\u003ch3\u003eMarx, Engels, and Marxisms\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eThe Marxist Foundations of the Oppositional Gaze\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Paradigm Shift in Questioning the Capitalist Moment\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHue Woodson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Science \/ History \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis book provides a foundational study of bell hooks’s groundbreaking theory of the oppositional gaze, which is first introduced in her book, \u003cem\u003eBlack Looks\u003c\/em\u003e (1992), by placing the oppositional gaze on Marxist footing for the first time. While situating hooks’s oppositional gaze within an intellectual tradition of the contemporary gaze emerging with French philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Lacan, and Michel Foucault, \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\"\u003eThe Marxist Foundations of the Oppositional Gaze\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e intervenes in the dominant accounts of the gaze, as it appears in and proliferates Western thinking, which largely overlook racialized, gendered, and classed dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis book also foregrounds hooks’s oppositional gaze as an intersectional concept attuned to hooks’s conceptualization of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Through this foregrounding, Woodson allows the oppositional gaze to traverse cultural studies, black feminism, black studies, queer studies, and literary studies, putting the concept in conversation with how thinkers and scholars such as Jacques Derrida, Jose Esteban Mu\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eñ\u003c\/span\u003eoz, Toni Morrison, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Cedric Robinson have all theorized looking, subjectivity, and power. In effect, this book repurposes hooks’s Marxist theorization of the oppositional gaze as that which expands, retools, complicates, and transforms looking relations into a site of resistance and counter-agency, intent on questioning the capitalist moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eHue Woodson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of English at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, TX, USA. He is the author of \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black;\"\u003eThe Black Marxist Feminism of bell hooks \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003e( Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30 May 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032220271\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e428\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46313412427916,"sku":"9783032220271","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032220271.jpg?v=1781059781","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032220271","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}