Overview
- Reconsiders the politics of Deleuze’s and Guattari’s approaches to psychoanalytic models of young masculinity
- Challenges scholars to take up Deleuze’s thought in order to re-shape gendered economies of knowledge and matter
- Employs Deleuze’s work to offer methods for understanding cultural pedagogies of gender
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About this book
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.Reviews
“Anna Hickey-Moody’s Deleuze and the Cultural Pedagogy of Gender is an indispensable contribution to the vibrant field of masculinity studies as it works to dismantle dominant, toxic masculinities while affirming the generative promise of a range of alternative masculinities…. For scholars in disability studies, ecotheory, and beyond, Hickey-Moody’s work should be required reading.” (Robert McRuer, George Washington University, USA)
“This timely and urgently needed book offers a crucial re-reading of Deleuze’s ideas to align with existing agendas in Masculinity Studies. Hickey-Moody skilfully identifies and challenges cultures of masculinity to argue for a more nuanced way of thinking about and doing masculinity. Her chapter on disability in particular… takes existing conversations in both critical disability and critical trauma studies into new and uncharted places, forcing us to rethink how both gender and disability are constructed and performed.”(Katie Ellis, Curtin University, Australia)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Anna Hickey-Moody is a Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, 2017-2021. She holds visiting professor positions at Columbia University, USA, Goldsmiths College, London, and the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. From 2013 to 2016, she was the Head of the PhD in Arts and Learning and Director of the Centre for Arts and Learning at Goldsmiths College. She has also held teaching and research positions at the University of Sydney, Monash, and UniSA, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Deleuze and Masculinity
Authors: Anna Hickey-Moody
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01749-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01748-4Published: 02 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01749-1Published: 16 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 194
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Philosophy, Poststructuralism, Feminism