Anthropocene Feminism
About this book
What does feminism have to say to the Anthropocene? How does the concept of the Anthropocene impact feminism? This book is a daring and provocative response to the masculinist and techno-normative approach to the Anthropocene so often taken by technoscientists, artists, humanists, and social scientists. By coining and, for the first time, fully exploring the concept of “anthropocene feminism,” it highlights the alternatives feminism and queer theory can offer for thinking about the Anthropocene.
Feminist theory has long been concerned with the anthropogenic impact of humans, particularly men, on nature. Consequently, the contributors to this volume explore not only what current interest in the Anthropocene might mean for feminism but also what it is that feminist theory can contribute to technoscientific understandings of the Anthropocene. With essays from prominent environmental and feminist scholars on topics ranging from Hawaiian poetry to Foucault to shelled creatures to hypomodernity to posthuman feminism, this book highlights both why we need an anthropocene feminism and why thinking about the Anthropocene must come from feminism.
Contributors: Stacy Alaimo, U of Texas at Arlington; Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht U; Joshua Clover, U of California, Davis; Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State U; Dehlia Hannah, Arizona State U; Myra J. Hird, Queen’s U; Lynne Huffer, Emory U; Natalie Jeremijenko, New York U; Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Columbia U; Jill S. Schneiderman, Vassar College; Juliana Spahr, Mills College; Alexander Zahara, Queen’s U.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction. Anthropocene Feminism: An Experiment in Collaborative Theorizing
- 1. We Have Always Been Post-Anthropocene: The Anthropocene Counterfactual
- 2. Four Theses on Posthuman Feminism
- 3. The Three Figures of Geontology
- 4. Foucault’s Fossils: Life Itself and the Return to Nature in Feminist Philosophy
- 5. Your Shell on Acid: Material Immersion, Anthropocene Dissolves
- 6. The Arctic Wastes
- 7. Gender Abolition and Ecotone War
- 8. The Anthropocene Controver
- 9. Natalie Jeremijenko’s New Experimentalism
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index