Posthumanism, Ecofeminism, and Inter-Species Relations

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ID20046136
AuthorsGreta Gaard (0000-0002-6145-4108, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages115-129
Publication date2017-07-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueRoutledge Handbook of Gender and Environment (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315886572-8
OpenAlexW2784994702
ISBN9781315886572
LanguageEN
Citations received10

This chapter brings a vegan ecofeminist perspective to explore theories of posthumanism – specifically, its branches of animal studies, critical animal studies, and new feminist materialisms – in the hope of building a more robust and inclusive feminism, one that lives up to the dream bell hooks describes. It seemed more than coincidence that in the years of ecofeminism&s;s ill repute, posthumanism took the academy by storm, advancing some of the same arguments about species, humanism, and self-identity that were earlier presented by ecofeminist theorists. As vegan ecofeminists have long argued, inter-species justice is an integral part of that feminist dream. As R. Twine observes, D. Haraway acknowledges ecofeminist writing on human/animal relations. Critical animal studies scholars take as their genealogical roots the work of not just Peter Singer and Tom Regan, but also anarchist philosophers, critical theorists, anarcha-feminists, and animal ecofeminist scholar-activists

Biology · Ecofeminism · Epistemology · Posthumanism · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Ecology

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