xenofeminism en · NOUN
Etymology
From xeno- + feminism. Coined by the collective Laboria Cuboniks in their 2015 manifesto The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation.
Meanings
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(neologism, uncountable) A branch of feminism which rejects naturalism and posits the abolition of gender and/or gendered oppression through the posthumanist embrace of technology.
Even if they were to incorporate feminist perspectives, however, tensions remain between the desire to use technology for change, as in feminist posthumanism and xenofeminism, and the recognition of its embeddedness within both militarism and capitalism.
2018, Emily Jones, Sara Kendall, Yoriko Otomo, “Gender, War, and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century”, in Australian Law Journal, volume 44, number 1, page 5:Xenofeminism sees the rising wave of technocracy but instead of searching for a buoy, it wants to catch the surf.
2019, Bogna M. Konior, “Automate the Womb: Ecologies and Technologies of Reproduction”, in Parrhesia, number 31, page 232:Rejecting the claim that science and technology are inherently masculine or patriarchal, Xenofeminism looks at attempts to repurpose technology to liberate women.
2019, Jordi Vallverdú, Sarah Boix, “Ectogenesis as the Dilution of Sex or the End of Females?”, in Janina Loh, Mark Coeckelbergh, editors, Feminist Philosophy of Technology, page 113: