The question of subjectivity in three emerging feminist science studies frameworks: Feminist postcolonial science studies, new feminist materialisms, and queer ecologies Landon Schnabel Department of Sociology, Indiana University, 1020 E Kirkwood Ave, 774 Ballantine Hall, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA article info synopsis Available online 15 March 2014 This paper explores the question of subjectivity, of who or what counts as a subject, bringing three feminist science studies frameworks into dialogue: feminist postcolonial science studies, new feminist materialisms, and queer ecologies. As critical frameworks, each challenges Western modernity and marginalizing exceptionalisms, hierarchies, and binaries, calling for a more inclusive subjectivity. However, they diverge on whether they seek to finish the humanist project and extend subjectivity to all humans or move to post-humanism and question the very notion of subjectivity. Feminist postcolonial science studies challenges the Western/Non-Western divide of subjectivity, queer ecologies challenges the human/ non-human divide, and new feminist materialisms challenges the life/nonlife divide. In their calls for greater inclusivity, the frameworks move expansively from subjectivity located in all human life, to subjectivity in all life, to subjectivity—if there is such an individually located thing—in matter. I argue that bringing these perspectives into dialogue is useful methodolog- ically and politically. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Introduction Popular since the rise of post-structuralism and post- modernism, the question of objectivity has problematized knowledge in important ways. While deconstructing objec- tivity is an important project in its own right, the question of subjectivity, and its constructive political implications, is a necessary correlate to the question of objectivity. The notion of subjectivity can be used as a way to grasp agency, activity, and social action, as a traditional binary correlate of the subject–object dichotomy, and as the locus of political activity. In this paper, I emphasize subjectivity's connection with agency and subjecthood while recognizing that subjectivities are processes involving multiply constituted subjects through contradictory subject positions. While addressing and challenging notions of subjectivity more generally, this paper asks who or what expresses agency, counts as a subject, and has a consequential perspective in three emerging feminist science studies frameworks: (1) feminist postcolonial science studies, (2) new feminist materialisms, and (3) queer ecologies. 1 In this paper, I bring three distinct feminist science studies frameworks into dialogue, using the question of subjectivity to begin what I hope will be a continuing conversation among these perspectives. I do not cover the frameworks exhaustively and merely offer a starting point for further conversation. To do this, I provide a concise account of the similar and contrasting ways that the question of subjectivity, of who or what counts as a subject, is engaged by each of the three emerging feminist science studies frameworks, referencing seminal texts to raise questions and provoke further analysis. All three frameworks are in agreement that we need to radically rethink what subjectivity means, but differ in the direction they take us for this reconceptualization. In this paper, I push the boundaries of traditional understandings of subjectivity, showing how these three frameworks problematize the subject/object binary, bringing recognition to difference and multiple subjectivities. First, I Women's Studies International Forum 44 (2014) 10–16 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2014.02.011 0277-5395/© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Women's Studies International Forum journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/wsif