Anthropocene Feminism (21st Century Studies)

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.

• Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime
• Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
• A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Forerunners: Ideas First)
• Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
• The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
• The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Berlin Family Lectures)
• Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
• Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
• Matters of Care (Posthumanities)
• Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times