Description
Book Synopsis* Major new work in feminist theory, cultural theory and gender studies * Author is well known in the fields of feminism and post--structuralism and for her work on problems of identity and difference.
Trade Review"Wonderfully thought provoking, highly stylized, and imaginatively written."
Kevin Pelletier, Cultural Critique
"Replete with situated, embedded figurations, Metamorphoses is a book to grow with. Emergences, transformations, and materialist becomings of all kinds are the subject of this rich philosophical work. Insects, women, philosophers, cyborgs – promising monsters all, and all are enlisted in drawing up a cartography of becoming. Braidotti writes with enormous energy and style. Never forgetting the subject structured in sexual difference, she searches for figurations that can guide us to emergences more attuned to justice, pleasure, and historical specificity. This book warms my biophilic heart, as it informs my feminist soul and gives pleasure to my embodied mind."
Donna J. Haraway, University of California at Santa Cruz
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.
Prologue.
1. Becoming Woman or Sexual Difference Revisited.
2. Zig-Zagging Through Deleuze And Feminism.
3. Metamorphoses: Becoming Woman/Animal/Insect.
4. Cyber-Teratologies.
5. Metamorphoses: The Becoming-Machine.
Epilogue.
Bibliography.
Notes.
Index.
