Ecologies of Gender: Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn examines the role of gender in recent debates about the nonhuman turn in the humanities, and critically explores the implications for a contemporary theory of gender and nature relations.
Susanne Lettow is a Senior Researcher at the Margherita von Brentano Center for Gender Studies and teaches at the Institute of Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Sabine Nessel is a Professor for Film Studies in the Institute of Theatre Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Introduction: Ecologies of Gender and the Nonhuman Turn
Susanne Lettow and Sabine Nessel
Part 1 Creatures: The Biopolitics of Making Kin
1. Mulberry Intimacies and the Sweetness of Kinship
Catriona Sandilands
2. The Vegetal Subjects of Feminist Speculative Fiction
Natania Meeker
3. The Arboreal Feminine: An Analysis of Affect and Activism in Two Ecofeminist Re-Enchantment Narratives from India
Swarnalatha Rangarajan
Part 2: Materials: Agency in/of Transcorporeal Assemblages
4. Plastic Ambivalence
Nicole Seymour
5. Political Drugs: Materiality in Testo Junkie
Kathrin Peters
6. Unthinkable Ecologies in Theatres of the Anthropocene
Ramona Mosse
Part 3: Spaces: Landscapes and Architectures of Power and Imagination
7. Gender, Nature, Nonhuman Animal: Bird People (2014) and the Proliferation of Difference in Cinema
Sabine Nessel
8. Wildlife Among Us. Post-Natural Worlds and Interspecies Encounters in Nicolette Krebitz's Wild
Andrea Seier
9. Creating Emotion with Space in Nanouk Leopold's Brownian Movement
Angelica Fenner
10. An Ecohumanist Perspective: Theorizing Ecofeminism through a Spatial Analysis of Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide
Sangita Patil and N S Gundur
Part 4: Temporalities: Histories, Presents and Futures to Change
11. The Figure of the Human in the "White (M)anthropocene". Philosophical Narratives on Sex, Race and Organic Kinship from 1800 to the Nonhuman Turn
Susanne Lettow
12. Speculative Ecologies: Salmon Farming and Marine Microplastics as Slow Disasters
Sven Bergmann
13. Futures of Plant-Human Mutualism. Science, Technology and Speculative Fiction
Antónia Szabari