Future Females, The Next Generation

New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism

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Produktbeschreibung

Feminist science fiction pioneer Marleen S. Barr, together with a talented crew of the field's established and emerging theorists, reveal new critical insights in Future Females, the Next Generation. This groundbreaking collection includes contributors from across the globe who find effective venues for imagining feminist thought experiments. A multinational perspective runs through this innovative volume, focusing on the latest dynamic trends in feminist science fiction, such as race, gender, cyberfeminism, the media, and new writers in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780847691258
• ISBN-10: 084769125X
• Artikelnr.: 21842417

Autorenporträt

Marleen S. Barr is the author of many books and articles about feminist science fiction, including Future Females: A Critical Anthology (The Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1981); Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction (University of Iowa Press, 1992) and Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond (University of North Carolina Press, 1993). Barr, whose forthcoming book, Genre Seepage: A New Discourse Practice (University of Iowa Press), is the recipient of the 1997 Science Fiction Research Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in Science Fiction Criticism. She is a visiting professor in the Humanities Department at Montclair State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction, "Everything's Coming Up Roses":
Or, Mainstream Feminist Science Fiction, the Uncola Part 3 One: Utopia and
Dystopia: A New Genre, Ecotopia, and the 1990s Chapter 4 1 Gender and Genre
in the Feminist Critical Dystopias of Katharine Burdekin, Margaret Atwood,
and Octavia Butler Chapter 5 2 Revising Paradise: Judy Grahn's Ecotopia
Mundane's World Chapter 6 3 The Feminist Dystopia of the 1990s: Record of
Failure, Midwife of Hope Chapter 7 4 Post-Phallic Culture: Reality Now
Resembles Utopian Feminist Science Fiction Part 8 Two: Alternative
Cyberpunk: Marge Piercy, Jeff Noon, and Pat Cadigan Chapter 9 5 The
Biopolitics of Cyberspace: Piercy Hacks Gibson Chapter 10 6 A Crossbreed
Lonliness: Jeff Noon's Feminist Cyberpunk Chapter 11 7 Real Lives
Complicate Matters in Schrödinger's World: Pat Cadigan's Alternative
Cyberpunk Vision Part 12 Three: Sex/Gender: Eroticizing Cyborgs and
Queering Science Fiction Chapter 13 8 The Erotics of the (Cy)borg:
Authority and Gender in the Sociocultural Imaginary Chapter 14 9 Pin-Up and
Cyborg: Exaggerated Gender and Artificial Intelligence Chapter 15 10
(Re)reading Queerly: Science Fiction, Feminism, and the Defamiliarization
of Gender Part 16 Four: First Contacts: Re-Reading Jaoanna Russ, Ursula K.
Le Guin and South Africa, and Eleanor Arnason's Other Chapter 17 11
Determinate Politics of Indeterminacy: Reading Joanna Russ's Recent Work in
Light of her Early Fiction Chapter 18 12 Truth and Story: History in Ursula
K. Le Guin's Short Fiction and the South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission Chapter 19 13 Incite/On Site/Insight: Implication of the Other
in Eleanor Arnason's Science Fiction Part 20 Five: New Female Heroes:
Mexican Women and Chicanas, the Star Trek Scientist, and Tank Girl Chapter
21 14 Mexican Women and Chicanas Enter Future Fiction Chapter 22 15 The
Woman Scientist in Star Trek: Voyager Chapter 23 16 Postfeminism and the
Female Action-Adventure Hero: Positioning "Tank Girl" Chapter 24
Postscript: A Real Future Female: Dreams, Truth, and Hope Chapter 25 Index
Chapter 26 About the Contributors