Derek Thiess

Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction

A Biopsychosocial Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that considering aged bodies changes the way we read both age and science fiction. It employs contemporary clinical psychology, the biopsychosocial model, to provide a method to consider age (and gender) as an e

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780367872021
• ISBN-10: 0367872021
• Artikelnr.: 58483257

Autorenporträt

Derek J. Thiess, Ph.D. is a Tutor at the University of Georgia, USA. He has published in journals such as Femspec and Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and is also the author of Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Arial S. Treankler Introduction 1. Science Fiction and the
Abjection of Age 2. Bad Girls (with Older Men): Differently Aged
Relationships in the Twilight Series 3. Care Work, Age, and Culture in SF
4. The End of Games: Sport, Anger, and Young Masculinity in SF 5. Age in
the Machine: Aged Bodies in Cyberpunk Conclusions: "No power in the 'verse
can stop me'"