Gender and Environment in Science Fiction
Title | Gender and Environment in Science Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Bridgitte Barclay |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 2018-11-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1498580580 |
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.
Ecofeminist Science Fiction
Title | Ecofeminist Science Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas A. Vakoch |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 2021-04-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1000376362 |
Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender, Ecology, and Literature provides guidance in navigating some of the most pressing dangers we face today. Science fiction helps us face problems that threaten the very existence of humankind by giving us the emotional distance to see our current situation from afar, separated in our imaginations through time, space, or circumstance. Extrapolating from contemporary science, science fiction allows a critique of modern society, imagining more life-affirming alternatives. In this collection, ecocritics from five continents scrutinize science fiction for insights into the fundamental changes we need to make to survive and thrive as a species. Contributors examine ecofeminist themes in films, such as Avatar, Star Wars, and The Stepford Wives, as well as television series including Doctor Who and Westworld. Other scholars explore an internationally diverse group of both canonical and lesser-known science fiction writers including Oreet Ashery, Iraj Fazel Bakhsheshi, Liu Cixin, Louise Erdrich, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Larissa Lai, Ursula K. Le Guin, Chen Qiufan, Mary Doria Russell, Larissa Sansour, Karen Traviss, and Jeanette Winterson. Ecofeminist Science Fiction explores the origins of human-caused environmental change in the twin oppressions of women and of nature, driven by patriarchal power and ideologies. Female embodiment is examined through diverse natural and artificial forms, and queer ecologies challenge heteronormativity. The links between war and environmental destruction are analyzed, and the capitalist motivations and means for exploiting nature are critiqued through postcolonial perspectives.
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Edward James |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2003-11-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521016575 |
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Apocalyptic California
Title | Apocalyptic California PDF eBook |
Author | MaryKate Messimer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783031299216 |
This book explores concepts of environmentalism and feminism in science fiction novels written by women. By extrapolating the future of climate change, the authors of these texts model how readers can apply utopian feminist and environmental theories in their own lives. Chapter One establishes an understanding of ecofeminist environmental thinking through original research conducted at the Ursula K. Le Guin archive at the University of Oregon. Chapter Two shows an example of climate change dystopia set in California in Claire Vaye Watkins' novel Gold Fame Citrus. The final chapters explore utopian visions of queer ecologies in books by Octavia Butler and N.K. Jemisin. Because climate change is so difficult for individuals to grapple with, a new perspective is needed to survive it. The queer ecological philosophy in these novels points to a way of life that can reduce environmental harm in an era of climate change. .
Decoding Gender in Science Fiction
Title | Decoding Gender in Science Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Attebery |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2014-01-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317971477 |
From Frankenstein to futuristic feminist utopias, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction examines the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored, and revised conventional notions of sexual difference. Attebery traces a fascinating history of men's and women's writing that covertly or overtly investigates conceptions of gender, suggesting new perspectives on the genre.
Feminist Ecocriticism
Title | Feminist Ecocriticism PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas A. Vakoch |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 073917682X |
After uncovering the oppressive dichotomies of male/female and nature/culture that underlie contemporary environmental problems, Feminist Ecocriticism focuses specifically on emancipatory strategies employed by ecofeminist literary critics as antidotes, asking what our lives might be like as those strategies become increasingly successful in overcoming oppression. Thus, ecofeminism is not limited to the critique of literature, but also helps identify and articulate liberatory ideals that can be actualized in the real world, in the process transforming everyday life. Providing an alternative to rugged individualism, for example, ecofeminist literature promotes a more fulfilling sense of interrelationship with both community and the land. In the process of exploring literature from ecofeminist perspectives, the book reveals strategies of emancipation that have already begun to give rise to more hopeful ecological narratives.
Daughters of Earth
Title | Daughters of Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Justine Larbalestier |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | 425 |
Release | 2006-05-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0819566764 |
Women's contributions to science fiction have been lasting and important. This is a collection of 11 key stories, alongside 11 essays that explore the stories' contexts, meanings, and theoretical implications. Organized chronologically, it aims to create a different canon of feminist science fiction and examines the theory that addresses it.