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    To see this and other images, visit “Barbara Kruger,” “The Art Archive”: http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/feminist/Barbara-Kruger.html. Accessed 25 November 2015.

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    For an analysis of “backgrounding” as a means through which both “woman” and “nature” and others have been exploited, see Plumwood 1993.

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    This photograph can be seen online at the GreenMuseum: http://greenmuseum.org/c/aen/Images/Ecology/arbol.php. Accessed 25 November 2015.

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    See Snitow (1990) for definitions of these terms.

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    For more on this terrible irony, see Wolfe (2013).

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Alaimo, S. (2018). Material Feminism in the Anthropocene. In: Åsberg, C., Braidotti, R. (eds) A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62140-1_4

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