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Deleuze and Masculinity
This book uses Deleuze’s work to understand the politics of masculinity today. It analyses masculinity in terms of what it does, how it operates and what its affects are. Taking a pragmatic approach, Hickey-Moody shapes chapters around key Deleuzian concepts that have proved generative in masculinity studies and then presents case studies of popular subjects and offers overviews of disciplines that have applied Deleuze’s work to the study of men’s lives. This book shows how the concepts of affect and assemblage have contributed to, and transformed, the work undertaken by the foundational concept of performativity in gender studies. Examining the work of Deleuze and Guattari on the psychoanalytic boy, as exemplified by their writing on Little Hans, Hickey-Moody reconsiders the politics of their approach to psychoanalytic models of young masculinity. In this context, the author examines contemporary lived performances of young masculinity, drawing on her own fieldwork.
The fieldof disability and masculinity studies has taken up the work of Deleuze and Guattari in a nearly unprecedented fashion. Accordingly, the book also explores the gendered nature of disability, and canvases some of the substantive scholarly contributions that have been made to this interdisciplinary space, before introducing case studies of the work of North American photographer Michael Stokes and the popular Hollywood film Me Before You. The book provocatively concludes by challenging scholars to take up Deleuze’s thought to re-shape gendered economies of knowledge and matter that support and contribute to systems of patriarchal domination mediated through environmental exploitation.
The fieldof disability and masculinity studies has taken up the work of Deleuze and Guattari in a nearly unprecedented fashion. Accordingly, the book also explores the gendered nature of disability, and canvases some of the substantive scholarly contributions that have been made to this interdisciplinary space, before introducing case studies of the work of North American photographer Michael Stokes and the popular Hollywood film Me Before You. The book provocatively concludes by challenging scholars to take up Deleuze’s thought to re-shape gendered economies of knowledge and matter that support and contribute to systems of patriarchal domination mediated through environmental exploitation.
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258 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 16, 2019
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November 13, 2021
Masculinities is something I have been reading about and interested in for a while. Currently I am more interested in Deleuze, but then this was an interesting melding of two of my interests. Not all of this was specifically helpful to me for my thesis, but a surprising amount was- whenever Hickey-Moody provides and insight into Deleuze and the potential for Deleuze and Guattarian thought in feminist critiques. This book also helped me understand and get into Coleman.
The arrogance and lack of empathy of Richard Dawkins has long bothered me, so I enjoyed Hickey-Moody's characterisation of him as "the bigot". He's brought it on himself by leading a mansplaining crusade of mockery against her on Twitter anyway. I wasn't that interested in the Twitter comments but Hickey-Moody's rebuttal of Dawkin's ill-thought attack (a rebuttal that should not be necessary) was good. There was a bit of a #metoo moment there (not that I am significant enough to have the bigots howling for my blood).
Anyway I strongly suspect this will improve my thesis and it was definitely and interesting thing to read. I recommend it.
The arrogance and lack of empathy of Richard Dawkins has long bothered me, so I enjoyed Hickey-Moody's characterisation of him as "the bigot". He's brought it on himself by leading a mansplaining crusade of mockery against her on Twitter anyway. I wasn't that interested in the Twitter comments but Hickey-Moody's rebuttal of Dawkin's ill-thought attack (a rebuttal that should not be necessary) was good. There was a bit of a #metoo moment there (not that I am significant enough to have the bigots howling for my blood).
Anyway I strongly suspect this will improve my thesis and it was definitely and interesting thing to read. I recommend it.
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