ABSTRACT
This chapter examines contemporary contours of humanist postfeminism, in particular in relation to work and organization, noting what might have been highlighted in this literature while also addressing other contemporary humanist postfeminisms current literature might have overlooked. It emphasizes that for as much as neoliberalism has been highlighted as underscoring postfeminism, the actual historical co-production of the neoliberal and the humanist postfeminist subject has been left insufficiently. The chapter argues that examining this co-production is important for gender-related aspects of work and organization. It argues that humanist postfeminism is important for understanding these issues; not as a last gasp for keeping intact the world we have now but as a parody of its old self—liberal feminism—needed for survival when extinction is the other alternative. The ontological rethinking that new materialisms bring about is from the start inimical to the dualisms pervading humanist philosophies and modernity in general—much like poststructuralisms and anti-essentialist feminisms—but does so in a materialist realist mode.
