The expansion of fracking, an intensive form of hydrocarbon extraction, has been met with increasing public hostility, spanning a diverse range of interests and political allegiances. However, to date, few authors have engaged with the role of gender and women activists. In this paper, I consider how gender and gendered ideas have been used as a resource to underpin fracking protests in the USA and UK. I find that a problematic gendered binary has emerged that undermined the veracity of anti-fracking protestors’ opposition and aligns with modes of planning governance that valorize universal and objective forms of knowledge. Drawing upon a feminist epistemological stance, I turn to a planning dispute over noise levels in Lancashire, England, to explore the limits to current forms of knowledge production. I argue that specific actors, behaviours, and forms of knowledge become framed as gendered and unreliable in the sphere of technical decision making, diminishing our understanding of the complexities of human experience and subjectivity within spatial planning.

水力压裂是一种集约化的碳氢化合物开采形式，它的扩张遭到了公众越来越多的敌意，涉及各种利益和政治效忠。然而，迄今为止，很少有作者涉及性别和女性活动家的作用。在本文中，我考虑了如何将性别和性别观念用作支持美国和英国水力压裂抗议活动的资源。我发现已经出现了一个有问题的性别二元论，它破坏了反压裂抗议者反对的真实性，并与使普遍和客观知识形式有价值的规划治理模式保持一致。借鉴女权主义的认识论立场，我转向英格兰兰开夏郡关于噪音水平的规划争议，以探索当前知识生产形式的局限性。我认为特定的行动者、行为、