Becoming-woman

pp. 123-151

in: Inna Semetsky, The edusemiotics of images, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2013

Abstract

The process of becoming in which each sign "changes in nature as it expands its connections' (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987, p. 8) is grounded – or, rather, ungrounded because its unorthodox "ground" is difference as addressed in the preceding chapter – in a series of transformations. This sign-dynamics proceeds as a movement away from the isolated individualistic, rational and patriarchal, Ego in its detachment from the body as a separate Cartesian substance and toward what Deleuze calls becoming-woman in terms of acquiring feminine, holistic, consciousness.