Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Trans Studies

by Ciara Cremin (Editor)

Overview

Putting Deleuze and Guattari's concepts to wide-ranging use, leading trans theorists and activists develop innovative ways of thinking about trans identities, and the processes involved in liberating desires from the gendered ego. The first volume of its kind covers a broad mix of subjects including transecology, corporalities of betweenness, black transversality, toxic masculinity, and transvestism.

Led by the overarching concept of schizonalaysis and responding to the need to move beyond the hetero-patriarchy currently dominating both progressive and regressive discourse, Ciara Cremin outlines the potential for radical departure from the status quo concerning gender identity, sex, bodies, and politics. Arguing that trans people are at the forefront of debates on gendered dichotomies as a result of becoming something other than their assigned gender, Cremin and her contributors theorise the possibility of a society which does not rely on gendered forms of oppression for its existence. Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Trans Studies is an essential, ground-breaking resource for theorists, activists and students interested in trans theory today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350174818
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/24/2022
Series:	Schizoanalytic Applications
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	457 KB

About the Author

Ciara Cremin lectures in sociology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of The Future is Feminine (2021) and Man-Made Woman: The Dialectics of Cross-Dressing (2017).
Ciara Cremin lectures in sociology and leads the Gender Studies programme at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has published a number of books, including Man-Made Woman (2017), that reflects on her early experiences of presenting publicly as a woman. Her work, in general, draws on Marxist, psychoanalytic and critical theory perspectives to diagnose the human condition in capitalism today.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Trans Woman's Perspective on Deleuze and Guattari, Ciara Cremin (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

1. The Ontopolitics of Gender as Transindividual Relation, Sam Berlin (University of Bristol, UK) and Sage Brice (University of Durham, UK)

2. 'How Do You Make Yourself A Trans- Body Without Organs?' Posthumanism and Embodiment in Trans- Imperceptible Subjectivity, Charlie Bowen, (KU Leuven, Belgium)

3. Gender Territory: A Response to the Charge of Conservatism, Glen Melville, (KU Leuven, Belgium)

­4. Trans* Teratologies, Janet B Watson (Deakin University, Australia)

5. Dysphoric Assemblage: How the Gender Binary Was Never Supposed to Work, Mat Fournier (Ithaca College, USA)

6. Transmolecular Revolution, Abraham B. Weil (California State University, USA)

7. Materializing Transgender Becoming: Norms, Failures and Ethics of “The Traveler's Book of Gender Wandering”, Kaochen Liao (Fo Guang University, Taiwan)

8. The Death and Rebirth of Transvestism, Torkild Thanem (University of Stockholm, Sweden)

Editorial Reviews

This is the anthology I've been waiting for: one that brings Deleuze and Guattari's scattered, elliptical references to transsexuality and non-binary gender into robust engagement with the field of trans studies that has grown up after their deaths. Both Deleuzoguattarian and trans studies will be enriched by this provocative encounter.” —Susan Stryker, Executive Editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly; Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership, Mills College, USA

“Schizoanalysis of Trans Studies transforms the way we think about gender and social life. Situated at the forefront of debates in gender studies, queer theory, and beyond, this anthology not only takes on the implications of trans studies, it takes on key issues of global as well as gender politics, and survival. Read it. We need this thinking. Now.” —Susan Rudy, Honorary Senior Research Fellow and Director, Centre for Poetry, Queen Mary University of London, UK

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