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English
Etymology
From xeno- + feminism. Coined by the collective Laboria Cuboniks in their 2015 manifesto The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation.[1][2]
Noun
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, 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: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.
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