Gender and environment in science fiction

Gender and environment in science fiction

by Barclay, Bridgitte Tidwell, Christy

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"This book 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 consciousn…

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Title Statements

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

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"This book 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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2019

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Lexington Books
  • Place of Publication:Lanham, Maryland
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2019

The Physical Object

  • Description:xxii, 215 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781498580571, 1498580572, 9781498580595, 1498580599
  • oclc:on1078895149
  • 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. 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.…

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Ecocriticism Écocritique Films de science-fiction -- Histoire et… Gender identity in literature Geschlechtsunterschied Identité sexuelle -- Dans la littérature Natur Nature in literature Nature in motion pictures Science fiction Science fiction -- History and criticism science fiction film Science fiction films Science fiction films -- History and cr… Science-Fiction-Literatur Sex differences in literature

Writers

Barclay, Bridgitte Tidwell, Christy

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