Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Thought · Enlightenment Legacies · Feminism and Liberal Humanism · Liberating Thought Chapter 2: Becoming · Becoming-Woman · The Girl · Feminism and the Future Chapter 3: Desire · Desire, Psychoanalysis and Experimental Psychiatry · The Desiring-Machines · Eroticism Chapter 4: Bodies · Sex and Gender · Sexual Difference · What Can Bodies Do? Chapter 5: · Pure Difference · Identity and Political Representation · Intersectional Difference Chapter 6: Politics · Recognition and Politics · Feminism Beyond Recognition · A Feminism of Imperceptibility Notes Bibliography Index

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The first book to introduce Gilles Deleuze's work in relation to feminist theory and to explore the key terms and arguments pertaining to this encounter.

About the Author

Hannah Stark is a Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

Reviews

For students and newcomers to Deleuze, the book's structure and writing style provide a comprehensible primer on concepts that readers will hopefully encounter in a more in-depth manner during their later course of study. What I also appreciated and even enjoyed about the book were the moments when Stark was able to focus on one of Deleuze's texts or concepts and provide a clear and thoughtful explanation of it. Stark knows Deleuze, and this is where her thinking and writing shines so brightly.
*Hypatia*

Hannah Stark's meticulous introduction to key concepts in Deleuze's philosophy explains their relevance for feminist theory and their creative potential for future feminisms, providing a rare combination of analytical clarity, critical authority and theoretical sophistication. Highlighting the novelty of Deleuze’s approach to difference and its value for reconceiving political problems and ideas, Feminist Theory after Deleuze is an essential point of reference for academics and students seeking new ways of understanding feminism as a politics of acts rather than identities; an ethics of alliance rather than recognition; and a philosophy of becoming that engenders profound and joyous intersections with alterity.
*Simone Bignall, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Policy, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia*