Gender and Environment in Science Fiction

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Gender and Environment in Science Fiction focuses on the variety of ways that gender and “nature” interact in science fiction films and fictions, exploring questions of different realities and posing new ones. Science fiction asks questions to propose other ways of living; it asks what if, and that question is the basis for alternative narratives of ourselves and the world we are a part of. What if humans could terraform planets? What if we could create human-nonhuman hybrids? What if artificial intelligence gains consciousness? What if we could realize kinship with other species through heightened empathy or traumatic experiences? What if we imagine a world without oil? The texts analyzed in this book ask these questions and others, exploring how humans and nonhumans are connected; how nonhuman biologies can offer diverse ways to think about human sex, gender, and sexual orientation; and how interpretive strategies can subvert the messages of older films and written texts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-07-07
Mått:154 x 219 x 18 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor:238
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498580595

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Bridgitte Barclay is associate professor of English and co-director of the gender studies minor at Aurora University.Christy Tidwell is associate professor of English and humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.

Recensioner i media

Science fiction scholars should ensure that their library has a copy of this fine collection, and scholars interested in the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the environment in SF should get the paperback for their personal libraries.

Innehållsförteckning

Part One: Performing Humanity, Animality, and GenderChapter One: Female Beasties: Camp Resistance in 1950s Wom-Animal Creature FeaturesBridgitte BarclayChapter Two: “Either you’re mine or you’re not mine”: Controlling Gender, Nature, and Technology in Her and Ex MachinaChristy TidwellChapter Three: Octavia Butler and the Language of the Flesh: Re-Writing Nature in Wild SeedAmelia Z. GreenePart Two: Gendering the Natural WorldChapter Four: Tendrils, Tentacles, and Flower Power: Speciesism in Womaneater (1958) and The Gardener (1974) Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Juan JuvéChapter Five: “So Very Natural an Occurrence”: Engendering Nature’s Antagonism in Mary Shelley’s The Last ManSteve AsselinPart Three: Contemporary QueeringChapter Six: Engineered Nature, (En)gendered Nature in Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312Tyler HarperChapter Seven: Ecologies of Sound: Queer Intimacy, Trans-Corporeality, and Reproduction in Upstream ColorStina AtteberyPart Four: “We Don’t Need Another Hero”Chapter Eight: Nature Boys & Bears in Pants: Ecoqueer Hybrid Heroes in Atomic Age ComicsJill E. AndersonChapter Nine: Saving Eden: Whiteness, Masculinity, and Environmental Nostalgia in Soylent Green and WALL-EMichelle YatesChapter Ten: Mad Max: Beyond Petroleum?Carter Soles

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