Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction Teaching a story about boldly being

a story about boldly being yourself

" offering an alternative to heroic forms of subjectivity produced by neoliberal capitalism and contemporary fascism

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Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction Teaching a story about boldly beingIn this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsions by what happens "behind our backs." Challenging the symptomatic interpretive methods of Western Marxism, De'Ath argues that value critical accounts of Marx's work enable a feminist reading method that understands how value dissimulates itself from the social forms it generates, obscuring their