xenofeminism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From xeno- + feminism. Coined by the collective Laboria Cuboniks in their 2015 manifesto The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation.[1][2]
Noun
[edit]xenofeminism (uncountable)
- (neologism) A branch of feminism which rejects naturalism and posits the abolition of gender and/or gendered oppression through the posthumanist embrace of technology.
- 2018, Emily Jones, Sara Kendall, Yoriko Otomo, “Gender, War, and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century”, in Australian Law Journal, volume 44, number 1, page 5:
- Even if they were to incorporate feminist perspectives, however, tensions remain between the desire to use technology for change, as in feminist posthumanism and xenofeminism, and the recognition of its embeddedness within both militarism and capitalism.
- 2019, Bogna M. Konior, “Automate the Womb: Ecologies and Technologies of Reproduction”, in Parrhesia, number 31, page 232:
- Xenofeminism sees the rising wave of technocracy but instead of searching for a buoy, it wants to catch the surf.
- 2019, Jordi Vallverdú, Sarah Boix, “Ectogenesis as the Dilution of Sex or the End of Females?”, in Janina Loh, Mark Coeckelbergh, editors, Feminist Philosophy of Technology[1], page 113:
- Rejecting the claim that science and technology are inherently masculine or patriarchal, Xenofeminism looks at attempts to repurpose technology to liberate women.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:xenofeminism.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Merray Gerges, "Xenofeminism and New Tactics for the Left", CanadianArt, 6 February 2007
- ^ Martin Hare Michno, "Creating Xenofeminist Spaces", The Guadie (University of Aberdeen), 7 May 2019