ABSTRACT
This chapter uses Sedgewick’s paranoid and reparative readings to discuss the relationship between feminisms and animal studies in SF. It tracks the movement of feminism from the cisgendered identity politics of second-wave feminism to more generous and complex ideas about gender in current SF, paralleling this movement to similar boundary dissolution in animal studies while it also moves to more generous notions of personhood across species and more complex views of taxonomic entanglement among living organisms. Focusing on works by Le Guin, Emshwiller, Okorafor, and Anders, among others, it notes how SF increasingly destabilizes the categories of woman and animal.
