xenofeminist

xenofeminist

English

Etymology

xeno- +‎ feminism

Adjective

xenofeminist (comparative more xenofeminist, superlative most xenofeminist)

1. (neologism) Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to xenofeminism.
   • 2018, Emily Jones, Sara Kendall, & Yoriko Otomo, "Gender, War, and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century", Australian Law Journal, Volume 44, Issue 1 (2018), page 6:

     Highlighting how feminist theory and feminist posthumanism in particular has generally taken an antimilitarism stance, Jones notes that the xenofeminist manifesto is silent on the topic of militarism, and argues for reclaiming anti-militarism for the xenofeminist project, illustrating how that approach can be useful for critiquing the uses of autonomous weapons systems.

   • 2020, Jennifer Cooke, "Feminist Manuals and Manifestos in the Twenty-first Century", in The New Feminist Literary Studies (ed. Jennifer Cooke), page 196:

     Nature's waters are subverted to turn against its guests, complementing a xenofeminist commitment to an anti-naturalism that also entails dismantling nuclear domestic spaces.

   • 2021, Christopher M. Cox, "Estranged World: Tenets of Xenofeminism and Tropes of Automated Alienation in Contemporary Alien Films", in Intersectional Automations: Robotics, AI, Algorithms, and Equity (ed. Nathan Rambukkana), page 223:

     The alternative, in this case, is the possibility that highly automated and autonomous technologies could be leveraged as the technomaterialist infrastructure of a postcapitalist, xenofeminist world.

Noun

xenofeminist (plural xenofeminists)

1. (neologism) A proponent of xenofeminism.
   • 2019, Emily Jones, "Feminist Technologies and Post-Capitalism: Defining and Reflecting Upon Xenofeminism", Feminist Review, Issue 123, Issue 1, page 128:

     Rather, the xenofeminists note the need to politicise the techno. Technology, to the xenofeminists, is a tool for revolution: […]

   • 2019, Vincent Le, "Slave, Sister, Sexborg, Sphinx: Feminine Figurations in Nick Land's Philosophy", Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Spring 2019:

     These accelerationists, xenofeminists, and inhumanists take up Landian ideas and concepts in various ways, but there is minimal textual exegesis of Land’s own writings.

   • 2020, Jilly Boyce Kay, Gender, Media and Voice: Communicative Injustice and Public Speech, pages 182-183:

     This impulse to simultaneously dismantle and build the world can also be found in the anti-naturalist work of xenofeminists and trans and queer activists—those who want to disrupt futurities that are based on heteronormative reproduction, […]