Introduction : emerging models of materiality in feminist theory / Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman -- Darwin and feminism : preliminary investigations for a possible alliance / Elizabeth Grosz -- On not becoming man : the materialist politics of unactualized potential / Claire Colebrook -- Constructing the ballast : an ontology for feminism / Susan Hekman -- Posthumanist performativity : toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter / Karen Barad -- Otherworldly conversations, terran topics, local terms / Donna J. Haraway -- Viscous porosity : witnessing Katrina / Nancy Tuana -- Natural convers(at)ions : or, what if culture was really nature all along? / Vicki Kirby -- Trans-corporeal feminisms and the ethical space of nature / Stacy Alaimo -- Landscape, memory, and forgetting : thinking through (my mother's) body and place / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands -- Disability experience on trial / Tobin Siebers -- How real is race? / Michael Hames-García -- From race/sex/etc. to glucose, feeding tube, and mourning : the shifting matter of Chicana feminism / Suzanne Bost -- Organic empathy : feminism, psychopharmaceuticals, and the embodiment of depression / Elizabeth A. Wilson -- Cassie's hair / Susan Bordo.