Deleuze and Masculinity

ISBN-13: 9783030017484 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 196 str.

Anna Hickey-Moody

Recenzje

"Deleuze and Masculinity is a book that shows the importance of reconfiguring how to 'do' masculinity and how to think masculinity studies. ... this book is a point of departure for reconfiguring alternative masculinities through new modes of thought, contributing to the masculinity studies field in proposing new ways to 'do' masculinity and new ways to understand research." ( Silvia de Riba Mayoral, Matter, Journal of New Materialist Research, Vol. 1 (1), 2020)

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Dedication

List of Figures

Table of Contents

Introduction

Situating the empirical data

Why Deleuze and masculinity?

Hegemonic masculinity

Chapter 1: Performativity, Assemblage, Affect

Performativity

Assemblage

Affect

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Schooling Masculinity

The psychoanalytic boy

The Spinozist child

Schooling masculinity after Deleuze: protest, striation and minor refrains

Protest masculinity for a new millennium

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Masculinity, Disability and Sexual Publics

Hierarchies of disability, masculinity and sexuality

Sex/ability

Deleuze and disability

Michael Stokes' ‘veterans’; recuperation and refusing pity

Me Before You

Conclusion

Chapter 4: Carbon Futures: Masculine Economies, Performative Materialities

The politics of surfaces

On the politics of oil: masculinity and post-carbon transitions

Financial and environmental gendered fictions

Empire and legitimate knowledges

People who ‘know what they are talking about’

Conclusion

Conclusion

O autorze

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.

Blurb

'This book is an intervention - both critical and clinical – on how to reach environmental, social and psychic sustainability… Anna Hickey-Moody takes a passionate stand against the social pathology of dominant toxic masculinity, its real-life as well as epistemic violence and its carbon heavy economic of waste and devastation… Erudite, funny, daring in its theoretical speculations and yet grounded in the empirical analyses, this book provides food for thought and vitamins for the soul.' 

-- Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

​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 field of 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.

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.