Masculinity After Deleuze
Author | : Anna Hickey-Moody |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 1350003379 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781350003378 |
Rating | : 4/5 (378 Downloads) |
Download or read book Masculinity After Deleuze written by Anna Hickey-Moody and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates about masculinity have frequently been concerned with its origins. In Masculinity After Deleuze, Hickey-Moody and Laurie argue that we urgently need to re-orient ourselves to what masculinity can become. Thinking through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, as well as his collaborations with Félix Guattari, as a method for re-framing questions of gender, the volume explores new directions in the articulation of masculine identities by considering work on feminism and pro-feminist men, performativity and affect, humour as a technology of gender re-production, masculinity as a learnt practice, disability as a terrain for the re-production of gender, and gendered economies of carbon production. Throughout, Masculinity After Deleuze weaves together a thread of Deleuzian concepts – including assemblage, affect, territorialisation, actual/virtual, surface/depth and surfaces of striation, capitalism and minoritarianism – to provide a dynamic model of how masculinities are materialized and changing in different social worlds. In doing so, Hickey-Moody and Laurie track important trends in the political terrain around masculinity, including the creation of gendered practices that actively reflect on – and in some cases undermine – the gains of feminist political activism. Masculinity After Deleuze calls for a future-oriented masculinity studies, one concerned as much with the precarity of new practices, desires, and social frictions as with older, familiar patterns of socialized masculinity.