Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology

Four Modes

AvRitch Calvin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This book argues that feminist science fiction shares the same concerns as feminist epistemology—challenges to the sex of the knower, the valuation of the abstract over the concrete, the dismissal of the physical, the focus on rationality and reason, the devaluation of embodied knowledge, and the containment of (some) bodies. Ritch Calvin argues that feminist science fiction asks questions of epistemology because those questions are central to making claims of subjectivity and identity. Calvin reveals how women, who have historically been marginal to the deliberations of philosophy and science, have made significant contributions to the reconsideration and reformulation of the epistemological models of the world and the individuals in it.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-27
Mått:148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt:518 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Global Science Fiction
Antal sidor:304
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319324692

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Ritch Calvin is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at SUNY, Stony Brook, USA. He is the editor of Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity, the co-editor of SF 101: An Introduction to Science Fiction, and has published work in Extrapolation, Femspec, Science Fiction Film and Television, Science Fiction Studies, and Utopian Studies. He served six years on the SFRA Executive Committee and as the SFRA Review’s media reviews editor.

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“Ritch Calvin’s Feminist Science Fiction is a clear, solidly argued, and original approach to the genre. … The book’s very consistent and clear structure is one of its strengths … . Calvin’s is a fresh reading of a familiar novel.” (Brian Attebery, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 44, 2017)

Innehållsförteckning

Endings(s).- Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology.- The First Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Plot.- The Second Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Structural Elements.- The Third Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Science.- The Fourth Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Language.- Beginning(s).