ABSTRACT
This chapter brings a vegan ecofeminist perspective to explore theories of posthumanism – specifically, its branches of animal studies, critical animal studies, and new feminist materialisms – in the hope of building a more robust and inclusive feminism, one that lives up to the dream bell hooks describes. It seemed more than coincidence that in the years of ecofeminism's ill repute, posthumanism took the academy by storm, advancing some of the same arguments about species, humanism, and self-identity that were earlier presented by ecofeminist theorists. As vegan ecofeminists have long argued, inter-species justice is an integral part of that feminist dream. As R. Twine observes, D. Haraway acknowledges ecofeminist writing on human/animal relations. Critical animal studies scholars take as their genealogical roots the work of not just Peter Singer and Tom Regan, but also anarchist philosophers, critical theorists, anarcha-feminists, and animal ecofeminist scholar-activists.
