Anthropocene Feminism

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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.

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"These insights are extremely important. Moreover, they go a long way toward creating a more sophisticated feminist ecology."Los Angeles Review of Books

"It is certainly a volume that due to its richness I will no doubt regularly return to and use as a point of reference."Leonardo

"What the authors in Anthropocene Feminism do collectively is foreground alternative timelines, histories, locations, and speculations for the Anthropocene, refiguring it as provocation for what remains to be done."Glasgow Review of Books

"Anthropocene Feminism anthologizes nine major thinkers in feminist theory whose work engages the current ecological crises. The book stages a rich transdisciplinary exchange among its contributors." Signs Journal

Author Bio

Richard Grusin is professor of English at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee. He is author of Premediation: Affect and Mediality after 9/11 and Culture, Technology, and the Creation of Americas National Parks and editor of The Nonhuman Turn (Minnesota, 2015).