Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist TheoryNomadic Subjects argues for a new kind of philosophical thinking, one that would include the insights of feminism and abandon the hegemonic mode that is conventionally adopted in high theory. Braidotti's personal, surprising, and lively prose insists on an integration of feminism in mainstream discourse. The essays explore problems that are central to current feminist debates including Western epistemology's relation to the "woman question," feminism and biomedical ethics, European feminism, and how American feminists might relate to European movements. |
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Contents
Organs Without Bodies | 39 |
Body Images and the Pornography of Representation | 55 |
Mothers Monsters and Machines | 73 |
Refiguring the Subject | 93 |
Discontinuous Becomings Deleuze on the Becoming Woman of Philosophy | 109 |
The Ethics of Sexual Difference The Case of Foucaultand Irigaray | 122 |
Envy or With Your Brains and My Looks | 134 |
Sexual Difference as a Nomadic Political Project | 144 |
On the Female Feminist Subject or From SheSelf to SheOther | 189 |
Womens Studies and the Politics of Difference | 203 |
Ethics Revisited Women andin Philosophy | 211 |
The Subject in Feminism | 230 |
United States of Europe or United Colors of Benetton? Some Feminist Thoughts on the New Common European Community | 243 |
Theories of Gender or Language Is a Virus1 | 256 |
NOTES | 279 |
INDEX | 307 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory Gender and culture |
| Author | Rosi Braidotti |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0231082355, 9780231082358 |
| Length | 325 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / Movements / Deconstruction Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory |
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