物質女權主義以波瑞德的物質自在性、艾雷默的跨軀體性、伯耐特的物質力為核心概念,提出物質、自然、人體因其內在的物質話語實踐而具有自在性,表明有毒物質在不同類型軀體間的傳遞顯現出人與環境之間的跨軀體性,倡導策略、謹慎對待環境的跨軀體物質倫理。物質女權主義因其獨特的自然觀、身體觀與環境倫理觀成為引領生態批評第四次浪潮的重要環境理論。

Material feminism, with Barad’s material agency, Alaimo’s trans-corporeality and Benett’s thing power as its key concepts, advocates that the material-discursive practices form the agency of matter, nature and human bodies. The transmission of toxins among different kinds of bodies shows the trans-corporeality between the human body and its environment. Material feminism proposes the trans-corporeal ethic which encourages treatment of environment with strategies and precaution. With its own vision of nature, body and environmental ethics, material feminism is an important environmental theory which leads to the fourth wave of American ecocriticism.