Deleuze and Queer Theory

Edited by Chrysanthi Nigianni

April, 2009
Paper, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3405-7
Edinburgh University Press
$37.50

Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3404-0
$115.00

A major paradigm shift in debates on sexuality, Deleuze and Queer Theory marks a shift away from discourse on identity and signification and a move toward a radical new conception of bodily materialism. For too long queer theory has been dominated by the work of Judith Butler and a focus on performativity. In these essays, a critical engagement with the work of Deleuze and Guattari shape a new queer theory, one that revisits the very term of "queer," rethinks the sex-gender distinction as implied in queer theory, explores queer temporalities, and considers the non/rereading of the homosexual body/desire and the becoming-queer of the Deleuze Guattari philosophy.

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Gay and Lesbian Studies

About the Author

Chrysanthi Nigianni is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London. Merl Storr is senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of East London.

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