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Chapter 5 - Posthuman Feminism and Gender Methodology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2021

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Rosi Braidotti
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Jude Browne
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Gender is a meta-methodological tool, a navigational instrument – gender is as gender does. In this chapter I apply gender as methodology to provide a cartography of the intersections between feminism and the posthuman predicament by arguing that feminism is not only a humanism; it needs to overcome anthropocentrism and embrace non-human life and entities.

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Why Gender? , pp. 101 - 125
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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