In a context marked by the virulent return of patriarchal and white
supremacist attitudes, a new generation of activists, from the
Xenofeminists to Pussy Riot, are continuing the struggle, fighting
alongside star feminists like Emma Watson and Scarlett Johansson: these
are very feminist times. But how do these and other struggles relate to
our contemporary posthuman condition? In this important new book, Rosi
Braidotti examines the implications of the posthuman turn for feminist
theory and practice. She defines the posthuman turn as a convergence
between post-humanism on the one hand and post-anthropocentrism on the
other, and she examines the double impact of these two lines of critical
enquiry for contemporary feminist practice.
In so doing she
develops five theses: that contemporary feminism is neo-materialist and
that feminism today is not a humanism; that Anthropos has been
de-centered and that non-human life, Zoe, is now the ruling concept; and
that, as a result of these shifts of perspective, today sexuality can
be defined as a force beyond, beneath and after gender. The book ends
with a plea for joyful political resistance, calling for embedded and
embodied cartographies of the new power relations that are emerging from
the current geo-political order. This bold new text by a leading
feminist philosopher will be of great interest to students and scholars
throughout the humanities and social sciences.
Posthuman Feminism - Rosi Braidotti
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