ABSTRACT
In many ways, Rosi Braidotti’s project to ‘develop and evoke a vision of female feminist subjectivity in a nomadic mode’ (Braidotti 1994a:1) promises to address at least some of the difficulties identified in the work of Irigaray and Butler. She wants to open up Irigaray’s feminism of sexual difference to consider other differences between women, to capture the simultaneity of ‘axes of differentiation such as class, race, ethnicity, gender, age and others’ (1994a:4). Like Butler, she wants to unsettle models of identity that are grounded in a desire for fixity, but unlike Butler, she thinks that a redefinition of the specifically female can offer a way towards an alternative model of the self.
