Marleen S. Barr (USA) is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction. She has received the Science Fiction Research Association Science Fiction Research Association’s award for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship. Barr is the author of Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction, and Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies. Barr has edited many critical anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of PMLA. Barr is also a fiction writer who has published two novels and three short story collections.

• PrefaceWhat Donna Haraway’s Cyborg WearsDonna HarawayIntroduction“Have Space Suit--Will Travel”: A Manifesto for the Potential Real World Impact of Intergalactic GarbMarleen S. BarrChapter OneDressed for Dystopia: The Appropriation of Margaret Atwood’s Handmaids’ RobesRaffaella BaccoliniChapter TwoWorkwear, Armor, Voice: Feminist Embodiment and the Politics of Sartorial Worldmaking in Joanna Russ’ FictionJeanne CortielChapter ThreeLearning to Fly: Wings, Fashion, and Posthuman IdentityElana GomelChapter FourJapanese Cosplay as a Science Fiction Fashion System: Historical Notes on Transpacific Gender PoliticsMari KotaniChapter FiveFashion Plates: Changing Depictions of Fashion in Connie Willis’ Bellwether, Justina Robson’s Keeping It Real, and Martha Wells’ All Systems Red and Artificial ConditionSylvia KelsoChapter SixThe Fashion of Power and the Power of Fashion: Dress and Empire in Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called EmpireAnastasia KlimchynskayaChapter SevenSartorial Second Skin and Mundane Attire: Fashioning Identity in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and DawnKamil NaickerChapter EightFeminist Refashioning in Xiran Jay Zhao’s Iron WidowJoy Sanchez-TaylorChapter NineScience Fiction/Clothing/Reality Or “Putting the ‘Ass’ in ‘Astronaut’” Is a Definite Feminist Fashion No-No Marleen S. BarrAfterwordAstronaut BarbieConstance Penley

Marleen S. Barr (USA) is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction. She has received the Science Fiction Research Association Science Fiction Research Association’s award for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship. Barr is the author of Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction, and Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies. Barr has edited many critical anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of PMLA. Barr is also a fiction writer who has published two novels and three short story collections.

• PrefaceWhat Donna Haraway’s Cyborg WearsDonna HarawayIntroduction“Have Space Suit--Will Travel”: A Manifesto for the Potential Real World Impact of Intergalactic GarbMarleen S. BarrChapter OneDressed for Dystopia: The Appropriation of Margaret Atwood’s Handmaids’ RobesRaffaella BaccoliniChapter TwoWorkwear, Armor, Voice: Feminist Embodiment and the Politics of Sartorial Worldmaking in Joanna Russ’ FictionJeanne CortielChapter ThreeLearning to Fly: Wings, Fashion, and Posthuman IdentityElana GomelChapter FourJapanese Cosplay as a Science Fiction Fashion System: Historical Notes on Transpacific Gender PoliticsMari KotaniChapter FiveFashion Plates: Changing Depictions of Fashion in Connie Willis’ Bellwether, Justina Robson’s Keeping It Real, and Martha Wells’ All Systems Red and Artificial ConditionSylvia KelsoChapter SixThe Fashion of Power and the Power of Fashion: Dress and Empire in Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called EmpireAnastasia KlimchynskayaChapter SevenSartorial Second Skin and Mundane Attire: Fashioning Identity in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and DawnKamil NaickerChapter EightFeminist Refashioning in Xiran Jay Zhao’s Iron WidowJoy Sanchez-TaylorChapter NineScience Fiction/Clothing/Reality Or “Putting the ‘Ass’ in ‘Astronaut’” Is a Definite Feminist Fashion No-No Marleen S. BarrAfterwordAstronaut BarbieConstance Penley

Marleen S. Barr (USA) is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction. She has received the Science Fiction Research Association Science Fiction Research Association’s award for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship. Barr is the author of Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction, and Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies. Barr has edited many critical anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of PMLA. Barr is also a fiction writer who has published two novels and three short story collections.

• PrefaceWhat Donna Haraway’s Cyborg WearsDonna HarawayIntroduction“Have Space Suit--Will Travel”: A Manifesto for the Potential Real World Impact of Intergalactic GarbMarleen S. BarrChapter OneDressed for Dystopia: The Appropriation of Margaret Atwood’s Handmaids’ RobesRaffaella BaccoliniChapter TwoWorkwear, Armor, Voice: Feminist Embodiment and the Politics of Sartorial Worldmaking in Joanna Russ’ FictionJeanne CortielChapter ThreeLearning to Fly: Wings, Fashion, and Posthuman IdentityElana GomelChapter FourJapanese Cosplay as a Science Fiction Fashion System: Historical Notes on Transpacific Gender PoliticsMari KotaniChapter FiveFashion Plates: Changing Depictions of Fashion in Connie Willis’ Bellwether, Justina Robson’s Keeping It Real, and Martha Wells’ All Systems Red and Artificial ConditionSylvia KelsoChapter SixThe Fashion of Power and the Power of Fashion: Dress and Empire in Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called EmpireAnastasia KlimchynskayaChapter SevenSartorial Second Skin and Mundane Attire: Fashioning Identity in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and DawnKamil NaickerChapter EightFeminist Refashioning in Xiran Jay Zhao’s Iron WidowJoy Sanchez-TaylorChapter NineScience Fiction/Clothing/Reality Or “Putting the ‘Ass’ in ‘Astronaut’” Is a Definite Feminist Fashion No-No Marleen S. BarrAfterwordAstronaut BarbieConstance Penley