This book uses Deleuze¿s work to understand the politics of masculinity today. It analyses
masculinity in terms of what it does how it operates and what its affects are. Taking a
pragmatic approach Hickey-Moody shapes chapters around key Deleuzian concepts that have proved
generative in masculinity studies and then presents case studies of popular subjects and offers
overviews of disciplines that have applied Deleuze¿s work to the study of men¿s lives. This
book shows how the concepts of affect and assemblage have contributed to and transformed the
work undertaken by the foundational concept of performativity in gender studies. Examining the
work of Deleuze and Guattari on the psychoanalytic boy as exemplified by their writing on
Little Hans Hickey-Moody reconsiders the politics of their approach to psychoanalytic models
of young masculinity. In this context the author examines contemporary lived performances of
young masculinity drawing on her own fieldwork. The field of disability and masculinity
studies has taken up the work of Deleuze and Guattari in a nearly unprecedented fashion.
Accordingly the book also explores the gendered nature of disability and canvases some of the
substantive scholarly contributions that have been made to this interdisciplinary space before
introducing case studies of the work of North American photographer Michael Stokes and the
popular Hollywood film Me Before You. The book provocatively concludes by challenging scholars
to take up Deleuze¿s thought to re-shape gendered economies of knowledge and matter that
support and contribute to systems of patriarchal domination mediated through environmental
exploitation.
