Year: 2012
Author: Davies, Bronwyn, Gonick, Marnina, Lampert, Jo, Pratt, Catherine Camden, Gottschall, Kristina
Type of paper: Abstract refereed
This paper examines the paradoxical and ubiquitous nature of Butler's heterosexual matrix (1990), and opens it up to an alternative Deleuzian analysis. Drawing on stories and art works produced in a collective biography workshop on girls and sexuality this paper extends previous work on the subversion of the heterosexual matrix undertaken by Renold and Ringrose (2008). The paper moves, as they do, from a molar to a molecular analysis, but extends that work by re-thinking the girl/subject in terms of Deleuze and Guattari's endlessly transforming multiplicities where "the self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities" (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987: 249).
References
Butler, J. (1990) Gender Trouble. New York: Routledge.
Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1987) A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. B. Massumi (Trans.) London: Continuum.
Renold, E. and Ringrose, J. (2008) Regulation and rupture. Mapping tween and teenage girls' resistance to the heterosexual matrix. Feminist Theory. 9(3): 313-338.