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Articles for DWF
I see a child in the course of time, 1986, n. 2, pp. 45-50
In a formally fragmented way Rosi Braidotti expresses
the actual paradox of feminist thought that is "all in this desire of research
and collective elaboration of a new definition of women's subjective individuality.
The line of reasoning lies between two verbs: the imperfect and the past conditional
tense.
"Was" is the tense of the little girl, as the image of someone who availed her self of a heritage without a will; of a girl that, without knowing it, was already a woman. Brought into a system of signs unable to represent her, before feminism, she was, like all the others, a voice that talked in the desert. "Had been" is the tense of what is possible, that saves the past but also expresses the desire, the refusal to accept certainties and the predictions made in the sixties.
Rosi Braidotti concludes with an indication for this passage in the void that we are living in: deny a negative history and a passive past; give an historic turn to women's experience towards assertiveness and authoritativeness.
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Images of void, 1992, n. 16, pp. 24-38
This is the first chapter of Dissonances: study on women in contemporary philosophy, soon to be translated and published in Italy. Object of the research is the meeting point of philosophical modernity, in the sense of discourse on the crisis of the rational subject, and the issue of womanhood and women in philosophy.
The scope of this reflection is circumscribed on the one side by the analysis of the state of contemporary philosophy according to philosophers such as Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze; on the other by research on theory, politics and subjectivity carried out by a growing number of women who work in the field of philosophy.
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BRAIDOTTI Rosi - CAVARERO Adriana, Debate [The decline of the subject and
the rise of female subjectivity], 1993, n. 20, pp. 69-90
In April 1993 the cultural association "Il filo di Arianna" organised a seminar in Verona with two well known feminist philosophers, Braidotti and Cavarero. The debate published here focuses upon some questions central to their work: such as, the relationship between feminist thought and the contemporary philosophical discussion on the crisis of the subject, or the meaning of new technologies in the coming into being of a female subjectivity.
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BUTLER Judith - BRAIDOTTI Rosi, Feminism by any other name, 1995, n. 26-27,
pp. 31-70
Already published in "Differences" (6:2/3, 1994), this dialogue between Braidotti and Butler centres upon three main areas: the conception of Europe and the meaning of the process of European unification; sexual difference theory vs. gender theory; subjectification and subjectivity.
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Books reviewed by DWF
BRAIDOTTI ROSI, MAZZANTI ROBERTA, SAPEGNO SERENA, TAGLIAVINI ANNAMARIA, Baby
Boomers. Vite parallele dagli anni Cinquanta ai cinquant'anni, Firenze,
Giunti 2003
rev. by Patrizia Violi, 2003, n. 58-59, pp. 88-91