Sublime

Mary Poovey, a materialist feminist—a feminist who focuses primarily on how patriarchal and capitalist assumptions force women into socially constructed gender roles—described this clearly. Poovey was attracted to deconstructive techniques for their ability to undermine what she saw as socially constructed gender stereotypes (the belief that such

Browne makes the case that physical branding played the same function for enslavers, allowing them to track racialized bodies via a permanent, unchangeable marker:

INTRODUCTION

f humans are to make new ways forward in partnership with nature and technology, we must first take a close look at and upend the concepts, histories, institutions and systems that support the inequitable distribution of resources and power.

Searching for origins is of course not inherently a bad or good practice, but we should be vigilant of what regimes of power such searches uphold, and whom they benefit.

Karen Warren’s

than be slaves to market forces (Du Bois 1933b).