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Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory Second Edition


Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory Second Edition

Hardback by Braidotti, Rosi (Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Utrecht University)

Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory

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ISBN:
9780231153881
Publication Date:
24 May 2011
Edition/language:
Second Edition / English
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Pages:
352 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 28 - 30 May 2024
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory

Description

For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual difference, and complex concepts through relations to technology, historical events, and popular culture. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition retains all but two of Braidotti's original essays, including her investigations into epistemology's relation to the "woman question;" feminism and biomedical ethics; European feminism; and the possible relations between American feminism and European politics and philosophy. A new piece integrates Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "becoming-minoritarian" more deeply into modern democratic thought, and a chapter on methodology explains Braidotti's methods while engaging with her critics. A new introduction muses on Braidotti's provocative legacy.

Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. By Way of Nomadism 2. Context and Generations 3. Sexual Difference Theory 4. On the Female Feminist Subject: From "She-Self" to "She-Other" 5. Sexual Difference as a Nomadic Political Project 6. Organs Without Bodies 7. Images Without Imagination 8. Mothers, Monsters, and Machines 9. Discontinuous Becomings: Deleuze and the Becoming-Woman of Philosophy 10. Envy and Ingratitude: Men in Feminism 11. Conclusion: Geometries of Passion-a Conversation Bibliography Index

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