'In this bold and challenging study, Amaleena Damlé brilliantly engages with both literature and philosophy as they attempt to address the vexed question of human embodiment. Reading contemporary writing by women alongside works by Gilles Deleuze proves to be both theoretically bracing and politically enlightening. This book deserves to be widely read.'Colin Davis, Royal Holloway, University of LondonCreating altogether new ways of thinking about the female body across a range of culturesFollowing a long tradition of objectification, twentieth-century French feminism often sought to liberate the female body from the confines of patriarchal logos and to inscribe its rhythms in writing. But how has the promotion of 'women's writing' in such thought and literature evolved in the years preceding and following the turn of the millennium? What sorts of bodily questions and problems do contemporary female writers evoke? How are traditional conceptions of the boundaries of the female body contested, exceeded or transformed? And how do contemporary philosophical discourses correspond to the ways that literary authors conceptualise, and write, the female body?Amaleena Damlé addresses these questions by exploring the intersections between a range of contemporary philosophers and authors on the subject of contemporary female corporeality and transformation.Amaleena Damlé is Research Fellow in French at Girton College, Cambridge.Cover image: Paul Saroglou, no title, 2000, Oil on canvas, 125 x 94 cm © Paul Saroglou.Cover design:[EUP logo]www.

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