Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction /
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| Summary: | XVIII, 353 p. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96192-3 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Sociotechnical Design and the Future of Gender
- Part I Reproductive Technologies
- 2. Ectogenesis on the NHS: Reproduction and Privatization in Twenty-first-Century British Science Fiction
- 3. Being an Artificial Womb Machine-Human
- 4. Environmental Sterilization through Reproductive Sterilization in Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army
- 5. Groomed for Survival – Queer Reproductive Technologies and Cross-Species Assemblages in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu
- Part II Reimagining the Woman
- 6. A Housewife’s Dream? Automation and the Problem of Women’s Free Time
- 7. Motherhood Beyond Woman: I Am [a Good] Mother and Predecessors Onscreen
- 8. Gender and Reproduction in the Dystopian Works of Sayaka Murata
- 9. Cyborg Separatism: Feminist Utopia in Athena’s Choice
- Part III Queering Gender
- 10. Drowning in the Cloud: Water, the Digital and the Queer Potential of Feminist Science Fiction
- 11. Making the Multiple: Gender and the Technologies of Multiplicity in Cyberpunk Science Fiction
- 12. Lesbian Cyborgs and the Blueprints for Liberation
- Part IV Posthuman Females
- 13. Becoming Woman: Healing and Posthuman Subjectivity in Garland’s Ex Machina
- 14. Female Ageing and Technological Reproduction. Feminist Transhuman Embodiments in Jasper Fforde’s The Woman Who Died A Lot
- 15. ‘Growgirls’ and Cultured Eggs: Food Futures, and Feminism in SF from the Global South
- 16. Reproductive Futurism, Indigenous Futurism, and the (Non)Human to Come in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God.