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The article analyzes the feminist response to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s
notion of becoming-woman. Feminist reactions reveal the deep conflict
between feminist theory, which seeks to empower female subjectivity,
and contemporary philosophy, which departs from any notion of the subject.
Feminist doubts and reservations are represented through the critical
readings of Deleuze and Guattari by two post-feminist thinkers – Rosi
Braidotti and Elizabeth Grosz. While maintaining some reservations about
this theory, Braidotti and Grosz reveal many positive implications for postfeminist
theory. One of the most important consequences is that the notion
of desire and feminine sexuality can be discussed in positive and affirmative
terms. Another consequence is that Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of
the Body without Organs influenced new theories of bodily technologies
and the posthuman body. The article examines Donna Haraway’s notion
of the cyborg and Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston’s notion of the
posthuman body as a post-feminist reaction to dominant patriarchal power.
The article also interprets the conjunction of technologies and the body by
analyzing the performances of Orlan and Stelarc and demonstrates in what
ways these performances can be read as post-feminist strategies.