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Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction

Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction

Herausgegeben: Vint, Sherryl; Buran, Sümeyra

Beschreibung

Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway's influential "Cyborg Manifesto" was published. With sections exploring reproductive technologies, new ways of imagining femininity and motherhood via artificial means, queer readings of gender as a social technology, and posthuman visions of a world beyond gender, this book demonstrates how feminist speculative fiction offers an urgently needed response to the intersections of women's bodies and technology. This collection brings together authors from Europe, Japan, the US and the UK to consider speculative films and texts, reproductive technologies and food futures, and opportunities to rethink family, aging, gender and sexuality, and community through feminist speculative fiction, a social technology for building better futures.

Autor

Sherryl Vint is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She has published widely on speculative fiction, including Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction (2021) and the edited collection After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century (2020).  Sümeyra Buran is an Associate Professor of English at Istanbul Medeniyet University (IMU), Turkey and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She is the founding and coordinating editor of Journal of Posthumanism, editor of the collection Edebiyatta Posthümanizm (2020) and editor of the Posthumanism Series for Transnational Press London.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-96191-6
• 1st edition 2022
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9783030961916
• ISBN-10: 3030961915
• Artikelnr.: 63274121

Rezensionen

"This innovative and important collection will be useful to scholars of sf literature and film, as well as to those particularly interested in the analysis of potentially liberatory or oppressive effects of current and developing technologies. ... This book is an extremely useful and timely intervention and the editors succeed in their announced goal ... ." (Sara Hosey, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 50, 2023)