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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 Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2017 © Hannah Stark, 2017 Hannah Stark has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 9781472526854 PB: 9781472529220 ePDF: 9781472528766 ePub: 9781472533340 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Series: Deleuze Encounters Typeset by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NN For Anne vi 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 viii CONTENTS 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.

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Feminist Theory After Deleuze addresses the encounter between one of the 20th century's most important philosophers, Gilles Deleuze, and one of its most significant political and intellectual movements, feminism. Feminist theory is a broad, contradictory, and still evolving school of thought. This b
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