Meanings
- neologismuncountableA branch of feminism which rejects naturalism and posits the abolition of gender and/or gendered oppression through the posthumanist embrace of technology.
Xenofeminism sees the rising wave of technocracy but instead of searching for a buoy, it wants to catch the surf.
2019, Bogna M. Konior, “Automate the Womb: Ecologies and Technologies of Reproduction”, in Parrhesia, number 31, page 2322 more examples
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.
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 5Rejecting the claim that science and technology are inherently masculine or patriarchal, Xenofeminism looks at attempts to repurpose technology to liberate women.
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, page 113
Origin
From xeno- + feminism. Coined by the collective Laboria Cuboniks in their 2015 manifesto The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation.
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