A bold exposé of how the very foundation of toxicology has been contaminated by sexist and racist ideologies
The first critical understanding of the field of toxicology from a feminist and antiracist perspective, Toxic Sexual Politics asserts that the science of toxicants must be held accountable for the uneven distribution of toxic pollution along racial and sexual lines. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and extensive ethnographic and archival research, including participant observations in toxicology classrooms, conferences, and laboratories, Melina Packer urges environmental health advocates to place toxicant science within its masculinist, militarist, and eugenicist history.
Toxic Sexual Politics shows how the founding fathers of U.S. toxicology were ideologically aligned with the chemical industry, inventing a science that could “make chemicals safe,” as opposed to one that could adequately protect planetary health from toxicants’ hazards. While many toxicologists today are critical of the chemical industry, they continue to rely on the highly limited tools of toxicology as accurate measures of toxicity, as do government regulators, the courts, and environmental advocates.
Unlike most critiques of the chemical industry and narratives of environmental health movements, Toxic Sexual Politics refuses to take the science at face value. By focusing on the sexist, racist, and ableist biases reinforced by toxicology, Packer powerfully argues that this scientific discipline reproduces the very same white supremacist and heterosexist logics that generated environmental injustices in the first place. The field of toxicology can explicitly confront chemical corporate power by building from queer, feminist, anti-ableist, and antiracist movements for environmental and reproductive justice.
"Toxic Sexual Politics is a profoundly original book. Melina Packer’s pathbreaking scholarship persuasively demonstrates how the science of toxicology is deeply rooted in heteropatriarchy and white supremacy. Accordingly, she invites us to consider the implications of this fact even and especially when that body of knowledge may lend support to environmental justice advocates’ campaigns. Packer effectively reframes and articulates what is at stake for we humans, our non-human relatives and our planet and I hope we heed her call and rise to the challenge." - David N. Pellow, author of What is Critical Environmental Justice?
"Toxic Sexual Politics is deftly written, darkly comic, and searingly urgent; I feel like I have been waiting for this book for decades. This book comes from a long line of feminist science studies scholarship and it does its forbearers - from Donna Haraway to Emily Martin to Mel Y. Chen - proud. Packer takes up the reins of science writers in the legacy of Rachel Carson to tell us a story about gender, politics, industrialism, and toxicants that will change the way readers see the world around them." - Traci Brynne Voyles, author of The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism
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The first critical understanding of the field of toxicology from a feminist and antiracist perspective, Toxic Sexual Politics asserts that the science of toxicants must be held accountable for the uneven distribution of toxic pollution along racial and sexual lines. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and extensive ethnographic and archival research, including participant observations in toxicology classrooms, conferences, and laboratories, Melina Packer urges environmental health advocates to place toxicant science within its masculinist, militarist, and eugenicist history.
Toxic Sexual Politics shows how the founding fathers of U.S. toxicology were ideologically aligned with the chemical industry, inventing a science that could “make chemicals safe,” as opposed to one that could adequately protect planetary health from toxicants’ hazards. While many toxicologists today are critical of the chemical industry, they continue to rely on the highly limited tools of toxicology as accurate measures of toxicity, as do government regulators, the courts, and environmental advocates.
Unlike most critiques of the chemical industry and narratives of environmental health movements, Toxic Sexual Politics refuses to take the science at face value. By focusing on the sexist, racist, and ableist biases reinforced by toxicology, Packer powerfully argues that this scientific discipline reproduces the very same white supremacist and heterosexist logics that generated environmental injustices in the first place. The field of toxicology can explicitly confront chemical corporate power by building from queer, feminist, anti-ableist, and antiracist movements for environmental and reproductive justice.
"Toxic Sexual Politics is a profoundly original book. Melina Packer’s pathbreaking scholarship persuasively demonstrates how the science of toxicology is deeply rooted in heteropatriarchy and white supremacy. Accordingly, she invites us to consider the implications of this fact even and especially when that body of knowledge may lend support to environmental justice advocates’ campaigns. Packer effectively reframes and articulates what is at stake for we humans, our non-human relatives and our planet and I hope we heed her call and rise to the challenge." - David N. Pellow, author of What is Critical Environmental Justice?
"Toxic Sexual Politics is deftly written, darkly comic, and searingly urgent; I feel like I have been waiting for this book for decades. This book comes from a long line of feminist science studies scholarship and it does its forbearers - from Donna Haraway to Emily Martin to Mel Y. Chen - proud. Packer takes up the reins of science writers in the legacy of Rachel Carson to tell us a story about gender, politics, industrialism, and toxicants that will change the way readers see the world around them." - Traci Brynne Voyles, author of The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism
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