{"id":3966,"date":"2025-10-01T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/fren-ital\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:01:16","slug":"3966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/fren-ital\/2025\/10\/01\/3966\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book by Professor Meeker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--signup-form \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--signup-form\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"text-image-container\">\n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Illusive Materialism\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Congratulations to Professor Natania Meeker for her<\/span><span class=\"e2ma-style\"> new Book: <\/span><span class=\"e2ma-style\"><a title=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/xhfhdh\/9mz1yqc\/tua3jm__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vnfGpmfKcLqShKLCaxoueqXUpU-MjyrgSe_8odAn_UerMjfhZYGE0HIos703-GBE8SsKRacCqgGko7PcU9kW$\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/xhfhdh\/9mz1yqc\/tua3jm__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vnfGpmfKcLqShKLCaxoueqXUpU-MjyrgSe_8odAn_UerMjfhZYGE0HIos703-GBE8SsKRacCqgGko7PcU9kW$\" data-type=\"url\" data-outlook-id=\"f931c00a-9048-4d92-bb7d-ed7ad6d79b29\">Illusive Materialisms: The Pleasures of Femininity in Eighteenth-Century France<\/a><\/span><span class=\"e2ma-style\"> (Fordham University Press, available for pre-order). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\"><i>Illusive Materialisms<\/i>\u00a0brings a close attention to gender to bear on the philosophical and political argument that sensual pleasure, framed as a mode of feminine responsiveness, is the primary business of enlightenment. Ultimately, the book argues on behalf of a history of feminine speculation that resonates with contemporary feminist and queer efforts to recenter pleasure and its generative illusions in the necessary work of critique. Through its analysis of a materialism that is often hiding in plain sight,\u00a0<i>Illusive Materialisms<\/i>\u00a0explores different ways to cultivate delight in a world in ruin.<\/p>\n<p>While most studies of materialism during the French Enlightenment focus on works by men,\u00a0<i>Illusive Materialisms<\/i>\u00a0foregrounds responses by women to the materialist currents that cut across the eighteenth-century canon and that aim to recast femininity as the privileged condition of the modern, enlightened subject. For the women writers examined here, femininity is both a form that is embodied and an art that is practiced, often with transformative effects.<\/p>\n<p><i>Illusive Materialisms<\/i>\u00a0illuminates the crucial role played by femininity in a long history of materialist philosophy. At the same time, it uncovers a specifically feminine engagement with the materialist thought and practice of eighteenth-century France. The book shows how three women authors (Madeleine de Puisieux, \u00c9milie Du Ch\u00e2telet, and Fran\u00e7oise de Graffigny) rework, revise, and reuse materialist texts and ideas in order to craft an ethic of pleasure whose effects traverse their writing and their life. 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