The Future of Housework
The Similarities and Differences Between Making Kin and Making Babies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5854346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Mae Hamilton (0000-0001-6380-9067) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 102 |
| Pages | 468-489 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Feminist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1321-7568 • E-ISSN: 1465-3303 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08164649.2019.1702874 |
| OpenAlex | W2995128174 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article critiques Donna Haraway's slogan 'make kin not babies' via a reading of her SF tale 'The Camille Stories'. It does so by considering the relationship between the care labour practices involved in making both kin and babies. The article has two central operations. It is an explicitly eco-social feminist argument against the use of making kin as an uncomplicated theoretical standpoint in the environmental humanities. At the same time, it deconstructs the iconic feminist ambit to be liberated from housework. These parallel operations emerge by characterising making kin as a kind of housework, which is a deeply ironic evaluation of Haraway's slogan. Overall the article is a response to the question: how is the work involved in making kin both the same as and different to the labour of making babies? The answer is constructed through the method of literary close reading, paying attention to genre and plot of 'The Camille Stories' alongside Fiona McGregor's novel Indelible Ink [2010. Melbourne: Scribe Publications] and Quinn Eades's all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body [2015. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing]. These comparative readings enable a reckoning with the gnarly and contradictory implications of 'making kin' across contemporary environmental humanities and feminisms
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Biography · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Publishing · Queer · Reading (process · Slogan · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Gender Studies · Law
Invert Syrup, Feminist Snap
Epilogue
Climate change sensing across work and home
Adoption, climate crisis and making kin
Environmental geography and the inheritance of Western technoscience
Becoming-with in a compost society - Haraway beyond posthumanism
Speculative visions
Designing a Greedy and Earth-Devouring Cat
Kitchen Futures
A Crude, Cruel Crisis
Counterproductive
Bad Environmentalism
Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK
Dithering while the planet burns
A Room of One's Own
Composting Feminisms and Environmental Humanities
Cyborg uterine geography
Smoke, Curtains and Mirrors
Spinning Yarns
Bodies of Water
Undomesticated Ground
Goodbye Gauley Mountain
Feminist Technoecologies
Postmaternal, Postwork and the Maternal Death Drive
The Problem with Work
Make kin, not cities! Multispecies entanglements and 'becoming-world' in planning theory
Money
Living a Feminist Life
Care
Decolonising Property
Interrogating the geographies of the familiar
The Family as the Locus of Gender, Class, and Political Struggle
Family Values
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |