Volume 49, March–April 2015, Pages 20–33
- Department of English, University of Wisconsin, 410 S Third Street, River Falls, WI 54022, USA
Available online 24 February 2015
Synopsis
Issues
that women traditionally organize around—environmental health,
habitats, livelihoods—have been marginalized in debates that treat
climate change as a scientific problem requiring technological and
scientific solutions without substantially transforming ideologies and
economies of domination, exploitation and colonialism. Issues that GLBTQ
people organize around—bullying in the schools, hate crimes, marriage
equality, fair housing and health care—aren't even noted in climate
change discussions. Feminist analyses are well positioned to address
these and other structural inequalities in climate crises, and to unmask
the gendered character of first-world overconsumption; moreover, both
feminist animal studies and posthumanism bring awareness of species as
an unexamined dimension in climate change. A queer, posthumanist,
ecological and feminist approach—brought together through the
intersectional lens of ecofeminism—is needed to tackle the antifeminist
threads companioning the scientific response to climate change: the
linked rhetorics of population control, erotophobia and ecophobia,
anti-immigration sentiment, and increased militarism.
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