Abstract
AbstractWhile feminists in the West have identified in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari cause for serious attention, this has not been the case among Arab feminists. This may be due to a lack of familiarity with their work or a lack of access to their works in translation, but I believe it has more to do with a perceived lack of resonance between Deleuze’s thought and Arab feminist concerns. The first part of this essay examines the state of Arab feminisms today, identifying four main tendencies: Islamic, rights based, Foucauldian, and conservative (the latter specific to feminism in the Persian Gulf states). The second section explores just how viable and productive a disjunctive synthesis of Deleuze and Arab feminism might be at this juncture. Deleuze and Guattari formulate disjunction as the production of differences. A relationship of disjunction can produce alternative ways of perceiving, feeling, and thinking about the world. I contend that a number of Deleuzian’s insights—including his...
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