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(Re)Thinking bodies : Deleuze and Guattari's becoming- woman
Abstract
Abstract
(Re)thinking Bodies: Deleuze and Guattari 's becoming-woman seeks to explore
the notion of becoming-woman, as put forth by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in their
collaborative 1982 text, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, and as
received by such prominent feminist theorists as Rosi Braidotti and Elizabeth Grosz.
Arguing that the fairly decisive repudiation of this concept by some feminist theorists has
been based on a critical misunderstanding, this project endeavors to clarify becomingwoman
by exploring various conceptions of the body put forth by Baruch de Spinoza,
Friedrich Nietzsche and Simone de Beauvoir. These conceptions of the body are
indispensible to an appreciation of Deleuze and Guattari's notion of a body lived on both
an immanent and transcendent plane, which, in turn, is indispensable to an appreciation
of the concept of becoming (and, in particular, the concept of becoming-woman) as
intended by Deleuze and Guattari.