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Embodiment, Sexual Difference, and the Nomadic Subject

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Rosi Braidotti
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This article deals with sexual difference as a philosophy of subjectivity which, however inspired by poststructuralism, was further developed by feminists. The main features of this philosophy are outlined both in terms of its style and of its vision of woman as subject. The notion of ‘difference’ is analyzed in details, as the central concept that sustains the feminist nomadic philosophy of a subject that is both complex and situated, politically empowered and epistemologically legitimate.

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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Winter 1993 , pp. 1 - 13
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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