With the aim of exploring the relevance of Ivan Illich’s thinking for infrapolitical reflection, this article focuses on his book Gender (1982) and what it suggests about feminism today, at a time of perishing (Williams). Beyond problematizing, as academic feminism did swiftly at the time of the book’s publication, Illich’s seemingly nostalgic representation of pre-modern patriarchal societies, I set out to reflect on the less explicit stakes of Illich’s challenge to liberal feminism. , I draw attention to some overlooked resonances between Illich’s admittedly ambiguous position on gender, Luce Irigaray’s “ethics of sexual difference,” and perhaps most strangely, Claire Colebrook’s thoughts on “sexual indifference,” in the framework of wider resonances between Illich’s critique of modernity and Gareth Williams’s infrapolitical take on technical globalization.