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Performativity, Assemblage, Affect

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Deleuze’s thought offers new methods for thinking about traditional themes in masculinity studies and it introduces concepts that bring a fresh approach to how I see masculinity and undertake masculinity studies as a discipline.

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Hickey-Moody, A. (2019). Performativity, Assemblage, Affect. In: Deleuze and Masculinity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01749-1_2

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