{"product_id":"behind-our-backs-amy-death-9781503644847","title":"Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction","description":"\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reading method that understands how value dissimulates itself from the social forms it generates, obscuring their historical content.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClose reading works by Kay Gabriel, Bernadette Mayer, Bhanu Kapil, Marie Annharte Baker, Alli Warren, and Hannah Black,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 everyday feminized ingenuity -- by turns excessive, improper, ironic, and sincere -- express the reality of capitalism's appearances, and in doing so call forth dialectical readers. Through this careful collation of poetic cases, capital is revealed to be not a force of human nature, but the expression of a dynamic social configuration - a logic realized every day, and one whose gendering inversions are felt and critiqued in the formal experiments of trans, queer, Indigenous, and diasporic verse. Feminized poetry, De'Ath demonstrates, is a central archive for the critique of political economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amy De'ath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503644847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503644847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Amy De'ath","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46906792837375,"sku":"9781503644847","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_61f63171-07df-47fd-a5ec-012334b770f5.jpg?v=1748771433","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/behind-our-backs-amy-death-9781503644847","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}