Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

How do we use ecofeminism now, in moments of revolution or reclamation? Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman’s introduction to Material Feminisms as well as Alaimo’s work in Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space outline some of the tensions between ecofeminist thought and the divergent interests of environmental feminism, material feminism, and feminist science studies in their respective approaches to the natural world, the body, and materiality. …