Gender and Environment in Science Fiction
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 7. July 2020
238 pages
978-1-4985-8058-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-8058-8 (9781498580588)
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Bridgitte Barclay
Gender and Environment in Science Fiction
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Persons
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.
Christy Tidwell is associate professor of English and humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.
Content
Part One: Performing Humanity, Animality, and Gender
Chapter One: Female Beasties: Camp Resistance in 1950s Wom-Animal Creature Features
Bridgitte Barclay
Chapter Two: "Either you're mine or you're not mine": Controlling Gender, Nature, and Technology in Her and Ex Machina
Christy Tidwell
Chapter Three: Octavia Butler and the Language of the Flesh: Re-Writing Nature in Wild Seed
Amelia Z. Greene
Part Two: Gendering the Natural World
Chapter Four: Tendrils, Tentacles, and Flower Power: Speciesism in Womaneater (1958) and The Gardener (1974)
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Juan Juvé
Chapter Five: "So Very Natural an Occurrence": Engendering Nature's Antagonism in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
Steve Asselin
Part Three: Contemporary Queering
Chapter Six: Engineered Nature, (En)gendered Nature in Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312
Tyler Harper
Chapter Seven: Ecologies of Sound: Queer Intimacy, Trans-Corporeality, and Reproduction in
Upstream Color
Stina Attebery
Part Four: "We Don't Need Another Hero"
Chapter Eight: Nature Boys & Bears in Pants: Ecoqueer Hybrid Heroes in Atomic Age Comics
Jill E. Anderson
Chapter Nine: Saving Eden: Whiteness, Masculinity, and Environmental Nostalgia in Soylent Green and WALL-E
Michelle Yates
Chapter Ten: Mad Max: Beyond Petroleum?
Carter Soles
Chapter One: Female Beasties: Camp Resistance in 1950s Wom-Animal Creature Features
Bridgitte Barclay
Chapter Two: "Either you're mine or you're not mine": Controlling Gender, Nature, and Technology in Her and Ex Machina
Christy Tidwell
Chapter Three: Octavia Butler and the Language of the Flesh: Re-Writing Nature in Wild Seed
Amelia Z. Greene
Part Two: Gendering the Natural World
Chapter Four: Tendrils, Tentacles, and Flower Power: Speciesism in Womaneater (1958) and The Gardener (1974)
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Juan Juvé
Chapter Five: "So Very Natural an Occurrence": Engendering Nature's Antagonism in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
Steve Asselin
Part Three: Contemporary Queering
Chapter Six: Engineered Nature, (En)gendered Nature in Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312
Tyler Harper
Chapter Seven: Ecologies of Sound: Queer Intimacy, Trans-Corporeality, and Reproduction in
Upstream Color
Stina Attebery
Part Four: "We Don't Need Another Hero"
Chapter Eight: Nature Boys & Bears in Pants: Ecoqueer Hybrid Heroes in Atomic Age Comics
Jill E. Anderson
Chapter Nine: Saving Eden: Whiteness, Masculinity, and Environmental Nostalgia in Soylent Green and WALL-E
Michelle Yates
Chapter Ten: Mad Max: Beyond Petroleum?
Carter Soles
