Feminist Theory After Deleuze

153 Pages·2017·2 MB·English

by  Hannah Stark

Feminist
Theory After
Deleuze
DELEUZE ENCOUNTERS
Series Editor: Ian Buchanan, Professor and Director of the Institute
for Social Transformation Research, University of Wollongong,
Australia.
The Deleuze Encounters series provides students in philosophy
and related subjects with concise and accessible introductions
to the application of Deleuze’s work in key areas of study. Each
book demonstrates how Deleuze’s ideas and concepts can enhance
present work in a particular field.
Series titles include:
Cinema After Deleuze, Richard Rushton
Philosophy After Deleuze, Joe Hughes
Political Theory After Deleuze, Nathan Widder
Theology After Deleuze, Kristien Justaert
Space After Deleuze, Arun Saldanha
Media After Deleuze, David Savat and Tauel Harper
Music After Deleuze, Edward Campbell
Feminist
Theory After
Deleuze
HANNAH STARK
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For Anne
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
List of abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
1 Thought 7
Enlightenment legacies 8
Feminism and liberal humanism 12
Liberating thought 17
2 Becoming 25
Becoming-woman 26
The girl 34
Feminism and the future 37
3 Desire 41
Desire, psychoanalysis and experimental psychiatry 42
The desiring-machines 49
Eroticism 54
4 Bodies 61
Sex and gender 63
Sexual difference 66
What can bodies do? 70
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5 Difference 79
Pure difference 80
Identity and political representation 86
Intersectional difference 93
6 Politics 99
Recognition and politics 101
Feminism beyond recognition 106
A feminism of imperceptibility 111
Notes 117
Bibliography 123
Index 131
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank Ian Buchanan who suggested that I write this
book and for other good advice along the way. Thanks to those
at Bloomsbury involved in the editing and production process and
to Madeleine Davis for compiling the index. I am very grateful to
Luke Hortle for his meticulous eleventh-hour research assistance.
I would like to acknowledge those people who supported the
germination of my interest in Deleuze when I was undertaking my
PhD: Mandy Treagus who took on a risky project and gave me the
time and space to work through ideas, Ken Ruthven who taught
me that it was important to find clarity particularly when working
on Deleuze and Jessica Murrell who worked beside me. I would
also like to thank my family Jeff, Jordan and Ben Stark and Joyce
Dinan, who (refreshingly) have very little interest in Deleuze but
who support and encourage me in this work anyway.
Much gratitude goes to my colleagues at the University of
Tasmania, particularly to Ralph Crane and the Elle Leane who
were there when I ran into difficulties. Special thanks to Michelle
Phillipov who not only kept me on track but who also told me
when the book wasn’t working, even when it was the last thing that
I wanted to hear. I am appreciative to various collaborators who
have pushed me to think about Deleuze and/or feminist theory in
new ways: Tim Laurie, Jon Roffe and Guinevere Narraway. Many
thanks to my students, particularly in my Literary Theory course
and postgraduate theory reading group, who remind me of the
wonder of encountering theory.
This book was written largely on weekends. I would like to
thank Anne Romeo for her love and patience and for holding our
life together while I worked.