ABSTRACT
The challenges posed by gender today are very different to those of twenty years ago. The transgender body has emerged as a site of contradictions that embodies the idea of futurity. Difference for Deleuze is not an empirical condition that differentiates A from B, but an ontological principle which constitutes the reason for A and B's differences. The study of being, ontology's primary focus, constitutes the core of Deleuze's philosophy. Foucault and Derrida too, however, each in their own way, approach their respective areas of philosophical enquiry ontologically. Biographers and historians have long used diaries as documents of relevant importance for telling stories and personal accounts. Plummer argues that the validity of the diary has been fully acknowledged also by social science and the diary format has become a common tool of research, especially when interested in personal accounts, behaviours and various aspects of individuals' lives.
