Feminist Theory After Deleuze

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Feminist Theory After Deleuze addresses the encounter between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and one of the twentieth-century’s most significant political and intellectual movements: feminism. Feminist theory is a broad, contradictory, and still evolving school of thought. This book introduces the key movements within feminist theory, engaging with both Anglo-American and French feminism, as well as important strains of feminist thought that have originated in other parts of the world. Mapping both the feminist critique of Deleuze’s work and the ways in which it has brought vitality to feminist theory, this book brings Deleuze into dialogue with significant thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, and Elizabeth Grosz. It takes key terms in Deleuze’s work such as ‘becoming’, ‘difference’ and ‘desire’ and examines them in relation to pressing debates in feminist theory. FC Half title Deleuze Encounters Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1 Thought Enlightenment legacies Feminism and liberal humanism Liberating thought 2 Becoming Becoming-woman The girl Feminism and the future 3 Desire Desire, psychoanalysis and experimental psychiatry The desiring-machines Eroticism 4 Bodies Sex and gender Sexual difference What can bodies do? 5 Difference Pure difference Identity and political representation Intersectional difference 6 Politics Recognition and politics Feminism beyond recognition A feminism of imperceptibility Notes Bibliography Index