Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 20:36:30 +1100
From: j9305091-AT-platinum.anu.edu.au (hypatia)
Subject: Re: gender etc.


Juha:

>Can somebody he*lp me and give some info about the developments of D &
>G's idea that there is more than two, in fact n, sexes? Did D/G
>or someone else develop the idea after _Thousand Plateaus_, or
>did someone argue against it? (Of course someone did - so
>please forgive me my ignorance ...)

Actually the development of the idea is already present in Anti-Oedipus (cf
69-70, 76-77, 294-6).  Try (for starters) Rosa Braidiotti, Elizabeth Grosz,
Luce Iragaray, Alice Jardine. (From memory 'A thousand tiny sexes' is in
Boundas ed. Gilles Deleuze and the Theatre of Philosophy)  Maybe Cixous as
well . . . and I am sure there are many more.
>
>... my article should be finished soon, but I just began to call into
>question the bipolar theories (man/woman, masculine/feminine) about
>"gender" ... which seem to prevent any kind of development and make
>one fall deep into essentialism and reductionism ...

If you are just beginning to question bipolar theories of gender I suspect
that your article may not be finished so soon, or maybe rather it needs a
book-length sequel?

>Juha Rainio

hypatia

p.s. love to hear how it goes with your article.

"Desiring-machines are the nonhuman sex, the molecular machinic elements,
their arrangements and their syntheses, without which there would be
neither a human sex specifically determined in the large aggregates, nor a
human sexuality capable of investing these aggregates."  Anti-Oedipus p.294






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