Gender and environment in science fiction

Gender and environment in science fiction

by Barclay, Bridgitte Tidwell, Christy

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This book examines the often-complex relationships between issues of gender and the environment in science fiction films and fiction. Its contributors discuss a range of texts: early apocalyptic science fiction, campy midcentury science fiction films, Silver Age superhero comics, and twenty-first-century science fiction films and literature.

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  • Full title :Gender and environment in science fiction / edited by Christy Tidwell and Bridgitte Barclay.

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This book examines the often-complex relationships between issues of gender and the environment in science fiction films and fiction. Its contributors discuss a range of texts: early apocalyptic science fiction, campy midcentury science fiction films, Silver Age superhero comics, and twenty-first-century science fiction films and literature.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2019

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xxii, 215 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781498580588, 1498580580
  • oclc:on1076263710
  • LC Classification:PN3433.6
  • Dewey Decimal:809.3/8762

Table of Contents

Introduction / Bridgitte Barclay and Christy Tidwell -- Part I: Performing Humanity, Animality, and Gender. Female Beasties: Camp Resistance in 1950s Wom-Animal Creature Features / Bridgitte Barclay -- "Either you're mine or you're not mine": Controlling Gender, Nature, and Technology in Her and Ex Machina / Christy Tidwell -- Octavia Butler and the Language of the Flesh: Re-Writing Nature in Wild Seed / Amelia Z. Greene -- Part II: Gendering the Natural World. Tendrils, Tentacles, and Flower Power: Speciesism in Womaneater (1958) and The Gardener (1974) / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Juan Juvé -- "So Very Natural an Occurrence": Engendering Nature's Antagonism in Mary Shelley's The Last Man / Steve Asselin -- Part III: Contemporary Queering. Engineered Nature, (En)gendered Nature in Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 / Tyler Harper -- Ecologies of Sound: Queer Intimacy, Trans-Corporeality, and Reproduction in Upstream Color / Stina Attebery -- Part IV: "We Don't Need Another Hero" -- Nature Boys & Bears in Pants: Ecoqueer Hybrid Heroes in Atomic Age Comics / Jill E. Anderson -- Saving Eden: Whiteness, Masculinity, and Environmental Nostalgia in Soylent Green and WALL-E / Michelle …

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Ecocriticism Écocritique Electronic books Films de science-fiction -- Histoire et… Gender identity in literature Identité sexuelle -- Dans la littérature LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction &… Nature in literature Nature in motion pictures Science fiction Science fiction -- History and criticism Science fiction films Science fiction films -- History and cr… Sex differences in literature

Writers

Barclay, Bridgitte Tidwell, Christy

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