Rosi Braidotti
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Rosi Braidotti (born September 28, 1954) is a contemporary feminist theoretician.
Braidotti, who holds Italian and Australian citizenship, was born in Italy and grew up in Australia, where she received degrees from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1976 and 1977. Braidotti then moved on to do her doctoral work at the Sorbonne, where she received her degree in 1981. She has taught at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands since 1988, now occupying a tenured chair in the department of Women's Studies there.
Her books include Patterns of Dissonance: An Essay on Women in Contemporary French Philosophy, 1991, Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, 1994, Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming, 2002, and Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics, 2006.
Influenced by philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze and especially "French feminist" thinkers Helene Cixous and Luce Irigaray, Braidotti has brought postmodern feminism into the Information Age with her considerations of cyberspace, prosthesis, and the materiality of difference. Braidotti also considers how ideas of gender difference can affect our sense of the human/animal and human/machine divides. She has been influential on third-wave feminism.
On March 3, 2005, Braidotti was honored with a Royal Knighthood from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
