Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Contemporary Women's Writing in French; 2. The Orchid, the Wasp and the Text: Encountering Bodily Becoming through Deleuze and Feminism; 3. Making a Body without Organs: Amélie Nothomb's An-Organic Flux of Immanence; 4. Becoming Otherwise: The Transformative Encounter in Ananda Devi's Writing; 5. The Flux and Folds of Consciousness: Marie Darrieussecq's Literature of Simulation and Dispersal; 6. Nomadic Vitalities: Becoming Beyond Boundaries in Nina Bouraoui's Writing; 7. Conclusion; Works Cited.