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    ae pb) Oi | MARY ENA S CON eT IOETare Hawkesworth The Oxford Handbook of FEMINIST THEORY AYOSHL LSINTNGA (om eleXe[ lid ROCA ELA D — The Oxford Handbook of OTT teah ieee) ae CHAPTER 33 POSTHUMAN FEMINIST THEORY ROSI BRAIDOTTI INTRODUCTION nmonly accepted hat Earopean feminism, nis liberal as wells socialist varia- isconnected to humanist vies and ideals Since the Enlightenment, the activist an egalitarian sprations of womensmoverentshave shapedliple reforms which also tected ae moral, academic owed and slentic produc: in order to reflect more adequately the experence and concer of women. The Seal passons nd innovative epistemlogies of feminist movements, however, were indexed solely onthe intrest of women, bt rater contained explic blueprints improvement ofthe human condition aa whole Ins doing, womersmove- renewed the shared understanding ofthe basi nit ofrefrenefor our common iy. This made the humanist tan almost visceral level posting womens ib human iertion intrinsic connection to humanism, however, was never withost rita distance 1986). Especially since the second fini wave ofthe 9705, mins interdi- nowledge production took to task the niversalsm, the binary structure of Ad the teleological vision of progress that are bul into the humanist project an emancipation. Over the last thirty years in particular, under the infivence of ralsm and deconstroction, an anti-human wave has redefined the rela ipbeten feminism and humanism, rgument [want to defend here is that both the haranist eicy andthe anti reaction ae very important geneslogcl sources for postaman feminism, "no means the only anes. The portman tun Is rggered bythe convergence sant chomanim on the one hand, and ant-anthropocentrsm, on the ater these strands enjoy strong support in feminism, but they refer to dfeent gene. ad trations. Ant-humaniem focuses on the critique of the humanist del of “Manas the universal representative of the human, while antl-anthrepocentr -claes species hierarchy and advances ecological justice. The term pasthuma theory marks the emergence ofa new type of discourse thats not etl a elm ‘anti: humanism supported by posttructralis theories since the 96s and na ‘an array of diferent posthumanist perspectives circulating inthe cutent en -words, the genealogical timelines ofthe posthuman are neither linear nor seq In thie chapter, wil ra illustrate feminist attempts to emancipate fe -lasscal humanismsthen Iwill explore the multiple root of posthuman fem in conclusion, wiloutine the key features ofposthuman feminist theory today. FeminisM Is Not (ONLY) A HUMANISM _Even before the emergence ofthe posthuman, the second ‘eminist wave entered as of radical negotiations with the legacy of humanism, which had provided its cal grounding, This means thatthe contemporary outburst of scholarship on Jbuman is by no means the first or the most original crtique of humanism accomplished by feminist theory and to give it credit for developing conceptsand: ‘ods that have encouraged critical distance from hurar For instance, in her watershed 1983 text, Alison Jaggar produced one ofthe taxonomies of feminist philosophy: Feminist Politi and Human Nature, She i

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