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Feminism as “Password”: Re-thinking the “Possible” with Spinoza and Deleuze

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Moira Gatens
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Abstract

This paper reads Deleuze through a Spinozist lens to conceive of the human being as a dynamic and complex whole in constant interchange with its environment. The author thus moves beyond philosophical dualisms, and challenges the assumption that a hierarchical normative organization is the only possible world. Using the example of rape, she argues that micropolitical strategies might disrupt and “pass” the juridical order and open up alternative, more equitable, forms of sociability.

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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Going Australian: Reconfiguring Feminism and Philosophy , Spring 2000 , pp. 59 - 75
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Copyright © 2000 by Hypatia, Inc.

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