Penelope Deutscher

Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University in Chicago. She is a specialist in contemporary French philosophy, gender studies and sexuality. Her most recent studies focus on the intersections of biopolitics and reproductive futurism, and the genealogy of gender rights claims. Her works include Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy (Routledge, 1997), A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (Cornell University Press, 2002), How to Read Derrida (W. W. Norton & Company, 2006), The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and Foucault's Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason (Columbia University Press, 2017).