ABSTRACT
At the start of this book I quoted Donna Haraway as she argued that feminist theory and politics will always have trouble holding together sex/gender, race and other identity categories without ‘a theory of “difference” whose geometries, paradigms, and logics break out of binaries, dialectics and nature/culture models of any kind’ (Haraway 1991:129). Haraway’s arithmetical challenge to feminism-that it learn to ‘count to four’—is a call to think about paradigm shifts that would problematise many of the assumptions about ontology, power and language that much of feminist theory still takes as its starting points.
