Nomadic subjects : embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory / Rosi Braidotti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braidotti, Rosi.

Series:

Gender and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Sex differences.

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Physical Description:

ix, 334 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]

Summary:

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:

Introduction

By way of nomadism

Context and generations

Sexual difference theory

On the female feminist subject : from "she-self" to "she-other"

Sexual difference as a nomadic political project

Organs without bodies

Images without imagination

Mothers, monsters, and machines

Discontinuous becomings : Deleuze and the becoming-woman of philosophy

Envy and ingratitude: men in feminism

Conclusion. Geometries of passion : a conversation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231153881

0231153880

9780231153898

0231153899

OCLC:

657223912