ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on to conceptual and methodological resources offered by feminist new materialisms. It addresses genealogical obstacles to fully appreciating the implications of new materialism's challenge to disciplinary proper objects on the other. Donna Haraway offers the term "natureculture" to describe a world that exceeds the analytics of the nature/culture binary that relegates "natural" objects to the natural sciences and "cultural" ones to the humanities. Feminist new materialisms offer resources for thinking about the imbrication of knowing and being, or, put a bit differently, the importance of what one say about the worlds to the processes of materialization. The chapter introduces debates around new materialist storytelling in the "Narrating New Materialism". In "The Gender of Nature: Feminists Theorize the Ostensibly Pre-Cultural", the chapter offers a genealogy of new materialism within feminist theoretical engagements with "nature". This genealogy opens up space for reading new materialist feminism as a site for theorizing nature, rather than "engaging science".
