SOURCE: “Woman in Limbo: Deleuze and His Br(others)¹,” in Substance, Vol. XIII, Nos. 3-4, 1984, pp. 46-60.

In the following essay, Jardine explores Deleuze and Guattari's relationship with the contemporary feminist movement as evinced in their work.

Responding to the appearance of Deleuze and Guattari's (D + G) Mille Plateaux in 1980, Catherine Clément pointed out what could be said about most of Deleuze's books, whether or not his is the only signature: it is a book of history, economy, ethnology, politics, aesthetics, linguistics. And a book of philosophy? “It's philosophy. Or maybe not. It's writing and thinking. Chagrined people—those with thin skin you know?—will sit worrying in their corner, smaller and smaller. The others, philosophers or not, will amuse themselves. And even seriously.”²

Seriously. For some, especially in the United States, this adverb is irrelevant to D + G. That judgement, in my opinion, is, however, simple...