Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond (eBook, ePUB)

Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction
Redaktion: Vakoch, Douglas A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By examining the links between the destruction of the environment and the domination of women, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond provides the tools to counteract those intertwined oppressions, helping create a foundation for a truly habitable world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000376357
• Artikelnr.: 61321010

Autorenporträt

Douglas A. Vakoch is President of METI, dedicated to Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence and sustaining civilization on multigenerational timescales. As Director of Green Psychotherapy, PC, he helps alleviate environmental distress through ecotherapy. Dr. Vakoch is editor-in-chief of the book series Space and Society, as well as general editor of Ecocritical Theory and Practice. He has explored ecofeminism in six of his other books, including Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender, Ecology, and Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Vandana Singh
Preface Douglas A. Vakoch
Introduction Patrick D. Murphy
I. Climate Change and Future Earth Dystopias
1. An Ecofeminist Reading of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and
Parable of Talents Hatice Övgü Tüzün
2. An Ecofeminist Treatment of Nourishment and Feeding in Margaret Atwood's
MaddAddam Trilogy Debra Wain
3. Margaret Atwood's Ecodystopic SF: Approaching Ethics, Gender, and
Ecology Izabel F. O. Brandão and Ildney Cavalcanti
4. Ecofeminist (Post) Ice-Age Ecotopia: Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann
Books Julia Kuznetski
5. Ecofeminist Climate Fiction: Merlinda Bobis's Locust Girl Iris Ralph
II. Utopias on Earth and Beyond
6. "Extinction is Forever": Ecofeminism and Apocalypse in Louise Lawrence's
Young Adult Short Fiction Michelle Deininger and Gemma Scammell
7. Ecofeminist Utopian Speculations in Henrietta Augusta Dugdale's A Few
Hours in a Far-Off Age (1883), Catherine Helen Spence's A Week in the
Future (1888), Mary Anne Moore-Bentley's A Woman of Mars; Or, Australia's
Enfranchised Woman (1901), and Joyce Vincent's The Celestial Hand: A
Sensational Story Nicole Anae
8. Alien Ecofeminist Societies: "Sharers" in Joan Slonczewski's A Door into
Ocean Irene Sanz Alonso
9. Re-reading Ursula K. Le Guin's SF: The Daoist Yin Principle in
Ecofeminist Novels Amy Chan Kit-sze
10. Keeping Grows; Giving Flows: Reciprocal Relations and the Gift of
Always Coming Home Karl Zuelke
11. "The Revolt of the Mother": Romanticizing Nature and Rejecting Science
in Sally Miller Gearhart's The Wanderground and Other Feminist Utopias
Christy Tidwell