{"product_id":"behind-our-backs-feminized-poetry-and-capitalist-abstraction-hardback-9781503643840","title":"Behind Our Backs; Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction (Hardback) 9781503643840","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBehind Our Backs\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFeminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmy De'Ath (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503643840\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 February 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e258 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBehind Our Backs\u003c\/i\u003e forges new bonds between a typically uncompanionable trio—Marxist value theory, feminism, and literary critique. It will be seen as a key document in the dissolution of the long-standing antinomy between totality and difference, value and identity.\" —Colleen Lye, University of California, Berkeley\"In this brilliant study of social forms, De'Ath shows how a surprisingly speculative strain of contemporary poetry explores unseen connections between the domination of value and the process of feminization. A groundbreaking book for both Marxist and feminist literary criticism.\" —Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago\"Using a nimble Marxian understanding of abstraction, De'Ath shows us the mistake we make when we call avant-garde poems 'abstract' and really just mean 'intellectual.' We will be better readers of political poetry because of this book.\" —Christopher Nealon, Johns Hopkins University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 historical content.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  Close reading works by Kay Gabriel, Bernadette Mayer, Bhanu Kapil, Marie Annharte Baker, Alli Warren, and Hannah Black, \u003ci\u003eBehind Our Backs\u003c\/i\u003e explains how these examples of feminized ingenuity reveal capital to be the expression of a social relation that must take form—an abstract logic realized every day, and one whose gendering inversions are felt and critiqued in the poetic experiments of trans, queer, Indigenous, and diasporic writing. Feminized poetry, De'Ath demonstrates, is both a central archive and theoretical powerhouse for the critique of capitalist political economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610724987160,"sku":"9781503643840","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/behind-our-backs-feminized-poetry-and-capitalist-abstraction-hardback-9781503643840","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}