Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : emerging models of materiality in feminist theory / S tacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman -- Darwin and feminism : preliminary inves tigations for a possible alliance / Elizabeth Grosz -- On not becoming man : the materialist politics of unactualized potential / Claire Coleb rook -- Constructing the ballast : an ontology for feminism / Susan Hek man -- Posthumanist performativity : toward an understanding of how mat ter comes to matter / Karen Barad -- Otherworldly conversations, terran topics, local terms / Donna J. Haraway -- Viscous porosity : witnessin g Katrina / Nancy Tuana -- Natural convers(at)ions : or, what if cultur e was really nature all along? / Vicki Kirby -- Trans-corporeal feminis ms and the ethical space of nature / Stacy Alaimo -- Landscape, memory, and forgetting : thinking through (my mother's) body and place / Catri ona Mortimer-Sandilands -- Disability experience on trial / Tobin Siebe rs -- How real is race? / Michael Hames-Garcâia -- From race/sex/etc. t o glucose, feeding tube, and mourning : the shifting matter of Chicana feminism / Suzanne Bost -- Organic empathy : feminism, psychopharmaceut icals, and the embodiment of depression / Elizabeth A. Wilson -- Cassie 's hair / Susan Bordo.