Gender and Environment in Science Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9781498580571
• ISBN-10: 1498580572
• Artikelnr.: 54036318

Autorenporträt

Bridgitte Barclay is associate professor of English and co-director of the gender studies minor at Aurora University. Christy Tidwell is associate professor of English and humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: 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. Anderson Chapter Nine: Saving Eden: Whiteness, Masculinity, and
Environmental Nostalgia in Soylent Green and WALL-E Michelle Yates Chapter
Ten: Mad Max: Beyond Petroleum? Carter Soles