Rosi Braidotti

Biographical Information

Rosi Braidotti is professor of women's studies in the Arts Faculty of Utrecht University and scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies and of the Expertise Centre Gender and Multiculturalism (GEM). In the academic year 1994-95 she was a fellow in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has been involved extensively in European cooperation in Women's Studies for many years. She chaired the European Subject Area Evaluation of Women's Studies in 1995. This lead to ATHENA, the European Thematic Network of Women's Studies for the SOCRATES programme of the commission of the European Union, which she coordinates together with Christine Rammrath. Furthermore she founded the inter-European university exchange programme, NOISE, linking 10 universities in different European countries, which offers a yearly European Summer School from interdisciplinary and multicultural perspectives. She has published extensively in feminist philosophy, epistemology, poststructuralism and psychoanalysis. She serves as an advisor to the journals: Signs, differences and The European Journal of Women's Studies. She is currently concentrating her philosophical research on the concept of difference in the work of Gilles Deleuze.

Bibliography

BOOKS

Patterns of Dissonance. Trans. Elizabeth Guild. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1994.

EDITED BOOKS

Praten in het donker. Multiculturalisme en anti-racisme in feministisch perspectief. Co-edited with Gloria Wekker. Kampen: Kok Agora, 1996.

Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs. Feminist Confrontations With Science, Medicine and Cyberspace. Co-edited with Nina Lykke. London: Zed Books, 1996.

Poste restante. Feministische berichten aan het postmoderne. Kampen: Kok Agora, 1994.

Ik denk dus zij is; De vrouwelijke intellectueel in literair en historisch perspectief. Co-edited with Suzette Haaksma. Kampen: Kok Agora, 1994.

Een beeld van een vrouw. De visualisering van het vrouwelijke in een postmoderne cultuur. Kampen: Kok Agora, 1993.

Guest editor of special issue of the journal Women's Studies International Forum. Special issue: Women's Studies at the University of Utrecht New York: Pergamon Press, 1993, vol. 16, no. 4.

Guest editor of special issue of the journal Les Cahiers du Grif. De la parent J B l'eug Jnisme Paris: Editions Tierce, 1987, nr. 36.

ARTICLES

"Nomadic Subjects: Feminist Postmodernism as Antirelativism," in Justice and Democracy. Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Ed. Ron Bontekoe and Marietta Stepaniants. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997), pp. 345-63.

"Mother, Monsters and Machines," in Writing on the Body, Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory. Ed. Katie Conboy, Nadia Median, Sara Stanbury. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), pp.59-79.

"Comments on Felski's, 'The Doxa of Difference': Working through Sexual Difference." Signs. Journal of Women Culture and Society 23, (Autumn 1997): 23-40.

"Meta(l)morphoses." Theory, Culture & Society 14 (May 1997): 67-80.

"Uneasy Transitions: Women's Studies the European Union," in Transitions, Environments, Translations. Feminism, International Politics. Ed. Joan W. Scott, Cora Kaplan, Debra Keates. (New York and London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 355-72.

"Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in contemporary Feminist Theory," in Feminist Literary Theory. A reader. Ed. Mary Eagleton. (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996), pp. 411-20.

"Nomadic Subjectivity: A Feminist Perspective," in Gesellschaften im Umbau. Identitäten, Konflikte, Differenzen. Ed. Claudia Honegger and Jhrg M. Gabriel. (Zhrich: Seismo Verlag, 1996), pp. 63-74.

"Nomadic Subjects: Feminism and Modernity," in Feminism, Epistemology, and Ethics. Ed. Inger Nygaard Preus and Arne Johan Vetlessen. (Oslo: Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo in cooperation with Unipub, Akademika AS, 1996), pp. 151-64.

"Reizende theorien in een multicultureel perspectief," in Praten in het donker. Multiculturalisme en anti-racisme in feministisch perspectief. Ed. Rosi Braidotti and Gloria Wekker. (Kampen: Kok Agora, 1996), pp. 15-56.

"Signs of Wonder and Traces of Doubt: on Teratology and Embodied Differences," in Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs. Feminist Confrontations With Science, Medicine and Cyberspace. Ed. Nina Lykke and Rosi Braidotti. (London: Zed Books, 1996), pp. 135-52.

"Cyberfeminism with a difference." New Formations. No. 29 (Autumn 1996): 9-25. Reprinted in: Zones of Disturbance. Ed. Silvia Eiblmayer. (Steirischer herbst 1997): 112-120.

"Nomadism with a difference: Deleuze's legacy in a feminist perspective." Man and World 29 (November 1996): 305-314.

"Women's Studies Curricula in European Universities."The European Journal of Women's Studies 3 (May 1996): 173-76.

"Otto Weininger e la Differenza Sessuale: Una Lettura Femminista," in Otto Weininger e la Differenza. Fantasmi della Ragione nella Vienna de primo Novecento. Ed. Giovanni Sampaolo. (Milano: Guerini e Associati, 1995), pp. 213-227.

"'Me Tarzan, you Jane?' - Reconstructions of femininity and masculinity in science fiction horror films," in Woman as Monster in Literature and Media. Ed. Dorrit Einersen and Ingeborg Nixon. (C.A. Reutzel's Publishing House: Denmark, 1995), pp. 9-16.

"Een dialoog met Lyotard over het seksuele verschil," in Lyotard Lezen. Ed. R. Brons and H. Kunneman. (Amsterdam: Boom, 1995), pp. 216-228.

"Mothers, monsters and machines," in Bodyscapes. Body and Discourse. Ed. M. Bryld, J. Caron, S.E. Larsen, n. Lykke, N.K. Nielsen. (Odense: Odense University, 1995), pp. 29-53.

"Equality and diversity. Radical feminism and the quest for fundamentals," in The Search for Fundamentals. The Process of Modernisation and the Quest for Meaning. Ed. Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen, Jan Berting, Franck Lechner. (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995), pp. 131-141.

"L'Era del Bio-Potere," in Questioni di vita o di morte. Ed. A. Guadagni Reset. (Rome: Donzelli Editore, 1995), pp. 55-63.

"Soggetto nomadico," in Femminile e maschile tra pensiero e discorso. Ed. P. Cordin, G. Covi, P. Giacomoni, A. Neiger. (Editrice Universita degli Studi di Trento, 1995), pp. 29-44.

"Feminism by any other name." Co-authored with Judith Butler, in differences. More Gender Trouble: Feminism meets Queer Theory. (Indiana University Press, 1994), pp. 27-61. Translated to Italian : "Femm ismo, anche con altro nome...." DWF, (Rome) 2-3, (September 1995): 31-70.

"Feminism and Postmodernism: Anti-Relativism and Nomadic Subjectivity," in The Limits of Pluralism: Neo-Absolutisms and Relativism, the Erasmus Ascension Symposium. (Amsterdam: Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, 1994).

"De weg van de nomade," in Mensbeelden. Essays over humanisme en maatschappij. Ed. H. Achterhuis, T. van Asperen, P. Cliteur, R. Tielman, C. verhoeven. (Kampen: Kok Agora, 1994), pp. 66-92.

"Of Bugs and Women: Irigaray and Deleuze on the Becoming-Woman," in Engaging With Irigaray. Ed. Carolyn Burke, Naomi Schor and Margaret Whitford. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), pp. 111-137.

"Theories of Gender," in Transformations in Personhood and Culture After Theory. The Languages of History, Aesthetics and Ethics. Ed. Christie McDonald and Gary Wihl. (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994), pp. 133-152.

"Towards a New Nomadism: Feminist Deleuzian Tracks; or, Metaphysics and Metabolism," in Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy. Ed. Constantin V. Boundas and Dorothea Olkowski. (New York/London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 159-186.

"What's wrong with Gender?" in Reflections on Theology and Gender. Ed. Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes and Anthalya Brenner.(Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1994), pp. 49-70.

"Radical Philosophies of Sexual Difference: Luce Iragary," in The Polity Reader in Gender Studies. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994), pp. 62-70.

"Revisiting male thanatica." differences. More Gender Trouble: feminism meets Queer Theory. (Indiana University Press, 1994), pp. 199-207

"Sexual difference as a nomadic political project," in Kvindecentret JUA-IV (Kobenhavn: center for Kvindeforskning Kobenhavns Universitet, 1994), pp. 1-48.

"The trouble with gender." Materialenband No. 14 (1994), pp.7- 30.

"De weg van de nomade. Complete tekst van de Socrateslezing 1993." De Humanist. Maandblad over humanisme, mens en wereld 49 (1994): 1-12. Reprinted as: "Feminism and Modernity." Free Inquiry 15 (1995): 23-29.

"Nomads in a transformed Europe: Figurations for an alternative consciousness," in Cultural diversity in the Arts. Art, art politics and the facelift of Europe. Ed. Ria Lavrijsen. (Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, 1993), pp. 31-44.

"In de sporen van Anna en Dora," in Vrouwenstudies in de Cultuur/wetenschappen. Ed. Rosemarie Buikema & Anneke Smelik. (Muiderberg: Coutinho, 1993), pp. 190-209. English translation: "In the Footsteps of Anna and Dora: Feminism and Psycho-analysis," in Women's Studies and Culture. Ed. Buikema and Smelik. (London/New Jersey: Zed Books, 1995), pp. 162-177.

"Femminismo, corporeitB e differenza sessuale," in Questioni di teoria femminista. Ed. Paola Bono. (Milano, Tartaruga, 1993), pp. 88-114.

"Refiguring the subject," in Enlightenments. Encounters between Critical theory and Contemporary French Thought. Ed. Harry Kunnemann en Henk de Vries. (Amsterdam, Kok Agora, 1993), pp. 319-341.

"Gender and Post-Gender: The Future of an illusion." Working-paper No. 1 (1993): 2-21. Reprinted in: Quaderni dei Nuovi Annali No. 31 (1993): 51-69.

"Femm ismo e modernité."Testimonianze 36 (1993): 55-77.

"Il tramento del soggetto e l'alba della soggettivitB femminile." DonnaWomanFemme 20 (1993): 69-90.

"Discontinuous becomings. Deleuze and the becoming-woman of philosophy." Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology 24 ( January 1993): 44-55.

"Embodiment, sexual difference and the nomadic subject." Hypatia 8 (Winter 1993): 1-13.

"On the female feminist subject, or: from 'she-self' to 'she-other'," in Beyond equality and difference. Citizenship, feminist politics and female subjectivity. Ed. Gisela Bock and Susan James. (London/New York: Routledge, 1992), pp. 177-192.

"Pour un féminisme critique," in Les Cahiers du Grif, La société des femmes. (Bruxelles: Edition Complexe, 1992), pp. 37-44.

"Essentialism," in Critical Dictionary of Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Ed. Elizabeth Wright. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 77-83.

"Theorien zum Begriff 'Gender' oder: Die Sprache ist e Virus. Von fem stischer Forschung zu Kulturforschung." Offene Frauenhochschule, No. 6 (1992).

"The migrant, the exile and the nomad." Women's Studies International Forum 15 (1992): 7-10.

"Immagini del vuoto." DonnaWomanFemme No. 16 (1992, no. 16): 24-38.

"Van subject veranderen. Metafysica en metabolisme." Krisis No. 46 (1992): 53-60.

"Il paradosso del soggetto: 'femminile e femminista'. Prospettive tratte dai recenti dibattiti sulle 'gender theories'," in La Differenza non sia un Fiore di serra. Ed. Il Filo di Arianna. (Milano: Franco Angeli, 1991), pp. 15-34; discussion: pp. 67-69.

"In media veritas: French intellectuals and journals," in Outside the Book. Contemporary essays on Literary Periodical. Ed. David Carter. (Sydney: Local Consumption Publications, 1991), pp. 154-165.

"Il pensiero della differenza sessuale: oltre il logocentrismo." Iride No. 6 (1991): 197-202. "Body-images and the pornography of representation." Gender Studies No. 2 (1991): 137-151. Repr ted as: ."On contemporary medical pornography." Tijdschrift voor vrouwenstudies No. 47 (1991): 356-371.

"United States of Europe or United Colours of Benetton? Feminist thoughts on the new European space."(Co-authored with C. Franken) Differences No. 4 (1991): 109-121. Dutch translation: "Als vrouw is de hele wereld mijn land." Lover No. 3 (1991): 159-164.

"The subject feminism."Hypatia 6 (Summer 1991)): 155-172. Repr ted and translated to Polish: "Podmiot w fem izmie." Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny No. 1-2 (1995): 9-43.

"Patterns of dissonance: women and/in philosophy," in Feministische Philosophi. Ed. Herta Nagl. (Wien/Munich, R. Oldenburg, 1990), pp. 108-122.

"The Problematic of the feminine in contemporary French Philosophy: Foucault and Irigaray," in Feminine/Masculine and Representation. Ed. Terry Threadgold and Anne Cranny-Francis. (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1990), pp. 36-47.

"Théories des études féministes: quelques expériences contempora es en Europe."Les Cahiers du Grif No. 45 (1990): 29-50. Translated into Spanish : "Teorias de los estudios sobre la mujer." Historia y Fuente Oral No. 6 (1991): 3-17.

"Gender, gender aan de muur.... Statement over het genderdebat."Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies 11 (1990): 436-440.

"De Beelden van de leegte." Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies 11 (1990): 5-17.

"Il triangolo delle differenze." Noi Donne (May 1990): 8-9.

"The Politics of Ontological Difference," in Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Ed. Teresa Brennan. (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 89-105.

"Organs without bodies." Differences No. 1 (1989): 147-161. Translated into Italian: "Il corpo come mosaico." Rinascita No. o (January 1990): 68-71. Translated to Danish: "Organer uden kroppe" and "Kvinner Erfarling: Kroppinog Makt."Kompendium 11 (May 1991)): 40-50.

"Envy, or; with your brains and my looks," in Men in feminism. Ed. Alice Jardine and Paul Smith. (New York: Methuen, 1987), pp. 233-241. Italian translation: "Invidia: o con la tua intelligenza e la mia belezza," in Il luogo commune delle differenze. (Napoli: Athena, 1991), pp. 85-98.

"De politiek van het subject. Blauwbaard en de verboden kamer."(co-authored with Anneke Smelik) Tijdschrijft voor Vrouwenstudies (1989): 182-204.

"Indifference sexuelle," in Acts of the conference: Dis-Moi Qui est la Plus Belle, Bruxelles/Paris: Editions du Botanique et Les Cahiers du Grif, 1989), pp. 44-50.

"De politiek van de ontologische differentie." Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies No. 36 (1988): 375-389

"L'usure des langues." Les Cahiers du Grif No. 39 (1988): 73-81. Translated into Italian Noi Donne (Rome), March 1989.

"Dies Irae."Copyright No. 1 (1987): 119-124.

"Des organes sans corps." Les Cahiers du Grif No. 36 (1987): 7-22.

"Du bio-pouvoir à la bio-éthique."Les Cahiers du College international de Philosophie No. 1 (1987): 123-127.

"Une fiére pensée: à propos de Françoise Dolto." Le Bloc-notes de la psychoanalyse No. 7 (1987): 217-222.

"Commento alla relazione di Adriana Cavarero," in La Ricerca della donne - studi femministi in Italia. Ed. Cristina Marcuzzo and Anne Rossi-Doria. (Torino: Rosenberg & Sellier, 1987), pp. 188-202.

"Bio-éthique ou nouvelle normativité?." Les Cahiers du Grif No. 36 (1986): 49-55.

"Le sujet du féminisme: un itinéraire personnel." Bullet d' formation des Etudes Fémines No. 18 (1986): 43-55.

"Fils de la méme épistéme: Foucault et Deleuze."Les Cahiers du Grif No. 34 (1986). Reprinted from Italian Il Manifesto (Rome) of 02/10/1986.

"Io vedo, nel tempo, una bambina." DonnaWomanFemme No. 2 (1986): 45-50.

"Ethics revisited: Women and/in Philosophy," in Feminist Challenges. Ed. Elizabeth Gross and Carol Paterman.(Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1980), pp. 44-60. Translated into Yougoslav: Filosofsza/strzivanja No. 1 (1986): 44-60.

"The ethics of sexual difference; the case of Foucault and Irigaray." Australian Feminist Studies No. 3 (1986): 1-13. Translated as: "L'etica della differenza sessuale. Michel Foucault e Luce Irigaray," in Michel Foucault e il divenire donna Ed. S. Vaccaro and M. Coglitore. (Italy: Collana Mimesis, 1997), pp. 49-59.

"Les Italiennes, toujours." Les Cahiers du Grif No. 34 (1986): 149-153. Translated to English: "The Italian Women's Movement in the 1980s." Australian Feminist Studies No. 3 (1986): 129-135.

"L'Australie, l'annJe de tous les enjeux." Les Cahiers du Grif No.34 (1986): 154-156.

"Women and Philosophy, the French Connection." Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies No. 24 (1985):  510-526. Translated to Italian: Memoria (Rome) No. 15, 1985): 39-51.

"U-topies, des non-lieux post-modernes." Les Cahiers du Grif No. 30 (1985): 51-61.

"On Italian women," in If You Can Make My Voice Heard: Women and Health Care in the Inner Suburbs. Ed. R.Kean. (Melbourne: Health Ministry of the State of Victoria Publications, 1982).

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An interview with Rosi Braidotti can be found at this address: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/gw/wstudies/Braidotti/ or click here.

An article written by Braidotti can be found at this address: http://www.let.ruu.nl/womens_studies/rosi/cyberfem.htm or click here.

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