ABSTRACT
A recurring trope in science fiction narratives has been an intense concern for environmental issues, anxieties about which have been translated into a vast number of post-apocalyptic narratives1 and fictional accounts of alternative worlds where one of the reigning preoccupations is the ecological balance between ecosystems. The urgent need to introduce ecological principles in the running of organizations and industries in order to minimize planetary pollution as well as the development of new conceptual models of organizational structures have played a fundamental role in the management and containment of the ecological crisis which has set in. Here I will be focusing upon the intersections of ecofeminism and organizational theory and practice as they appear dramatized in Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (1975) and Fay Weldon’s The Cloning of Joanna May (1989), two texts which, as I will be arguing, share many feminist concerns and offer apposite instances of science fiction’s engagement with gender.
