Patriarchal Capitalism in Times of the Anthropocene: Reflections on the Feminist Dystopia The Stone Gods
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Feminist dystopia; Feminist ecocriticism; Anthropocene; Jeanette Winterson.Abstract
This paper analyzes the novel The Stone Gods (2012) by the British author Jeanette Winterson as a feminist dystopia that presents the Anthropocene and its urgencies as a thread of tragic stories that intertwine in different space-times. Considered as sf, in the sense that it is equivalent to science fiction, speculative fabulation, and speculative feminism (HARAWAY, 2016), the apocalyptic plot of the narrative manifests clear criticism of capitalist and patriarchal relations of oppression, exposing them as responsible for the catastrophic course humanity has taken, as well as speculating on possibilities of resistance to destabilize such structures. Based on these assumptions, the analysis is founded on a feminist critique grounded on the reflections of Silvia Federici (2019), articulating the relations of race, gender, and sexuality in the constitution of the capitalist exploitation model, and to observe the effects that these structures cause in nature as a result of human intervention.
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