Gender and Environment in Science Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Barclay, Bridgitte; Tidwell, Christy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498580588
• Artikelnr.: 56828213

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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