Eleanor Drage

The Planetary Humanism of European Women's Science Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

An Experience of the Impossible

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers rare insight into how utopian science fiction written by contemporary and historical European women has played an important role in exploring the racial and gender possibilities of the outer limits of the humanist imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000923209
• Artikelnr.: 68951711

Autorenporträt

Eleanor Drage is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, where she applies feminism and anti- racism to the ethics of artificial intelligence.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and Roadmap

Chapter 1: Towards New Forms of Humanism

Chapter 2: Contextualising the History of Science Fiction

Chapter 3: Re-historicising the Future: Re-contextualising Systems of Race and Gender in Women's Sciece Fiction

Chapter 4: Embodying New Forms of Humanism: The Fate of Race and Gender in Queer Assemblages

Chapter 5: Pregnancy, by Mistake: Transgressing Race and Gender Through Queered Extraterrestrial Fertility

Chapter 6: Non-Reproductive Planetary Communities: Race, Gender, Kinship, and Forgetting to Conform

Chapter 7: At the Borders of the Planetary

Chapter 8: Conclusion: New Forms of Humanism

Summaries of Primary Science Fiction Texts

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Introduction and Roadmap
Chapter 1: Towards New Forms of Humanism
Chapter 2: Contextualising the History of Science Fiction
Chapter 3: Re-historicising the Future: Re-contextualising Systems of Race
and Gender in Women's Sciece Fiction
Chapter 4: Embodying New Forms of Humanism: The Fate of Race and Gender in
Queer Assemblages
Chapter 5: Pregnancy, by Mistake: Transgressing Race and Gender Through
Queered Extraterrestrial Fertility
Chapter 6: Non-Reproductive Planetary Communities: Race, Gender, Kinship,
and Forgetting to Conform
Chapter 7: At the Borders of the Planetary
Chapter 8: Conclusion: New Forms of Humanism
Summaries of Primary Science Fiction Texts