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Feminism and the Anthropocene: Assessing the Field through Recent Books
- Feminist Studies
- Feminist Studies, Inc.
- Volume 43, Number 3, 2017
- pp. 658-683
- 10.1353/fem.2017.0023
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
This assessment of the field explores a confluence of feminist thinking about the 20th-century Great Acceleration in the United States: post-World-War II projects of modernization made the security of white nuclear families global models of well-being, while banishing the work of their securitization to non-white sacrifice zones—which eventually came to encompass most of the earth. “Anthropocene” is thus a project of making race and gender as much as making capital. The essay continues into feminist arguments for limiting the Anthropocene to maintain spaces of more-than-human livability. We end with work of emerging scholars.