In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity how should we reimagine the
emancipatory potential of feminism? How should gender politics be reconfigured in a world being
transformed by automation globalization and the digital revolution? These questions are
addressed in this bold new book by Helen Hester a founding member of the 'Laboria Cuboniks'
collective that developed the acclaimed manifesto 'Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation'.
Hester develops a three-part definition of xenofeminism grounded in the ideas of
technomaterialism anti-naturalism and gender abolitionism. She elaborates these ideas in
relation to assistive reproductive technologies and interrogates the relationship between
reproduction and futurity while steering clear of a problematic anti-natalism. Finally she
examines what xenofeminist technologies might look like in practice using the history of one
specific device to argue for a future-oriented gender politics that can facilitate alternative
models of reproduction. Challenging and iconoclastic this visionary book is the essential
guide to one of the most exciting intellectual trends in contemporary feminism.
