Feminist Philosophy And Science Fiction
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Feminist Philosophy And Science Fiction
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Author : Judith A. Little
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Feminist Philosophy And Science Fiction written by Judith A. Little and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Fiction categories.
Using selections from writers like Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree jr., and many others, this collection shows how the imagined worlds of science fiction create hold experiments for testing feminist hypotheses and for interpreting philosophical questions about humanity, gender, equality and more. Four main themes: Part 1, 'Human nature and reality', concentrates on whether there is an intrinsic difference between males and females. Part 2, 'Dystopias: the worst of all possible worlds', portrays misogynistic societies uncomfortably familiar to the early 21st-century reader. Part 3, 'Separatist utopias: worlds of difference', assembles stories that scrutinize both the virtues and vices of separatism. In Part 4, 'Androgynous utopias: worlds of equality', the authors create worlds that anticipate the consequences, good and bad, of perfect sexual equality in education, intelligence, capability, and reproduction.
Feminist Science Fiction And Feminist Epistemology
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Author : Ritch Calvin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-09-11
Feminist Science Fiction And Feminist Epistemology written by Ritch Calvin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book argues that feminist science fiction shares the same concerns as feminist epistemology—challenges to the sex of the knower, the valuation of the abstract over the concrete, the dismissal of the physical, the focus on rationality and reason, the devaluation of embodied knowledge, and the containment of (some) bodies. Ritch Calvin argues that feminist science fiction asks questions of epistemology because those questions are central to making claims of subjectivity and identity. Calvin reveals how women, who have historically been marginal to the deliberations of philosophy and science, have made significant contributions to the reconsideration and reformulation of the epistemological models of the world and the individuals in it.
The Biopolitics Of Gender In Science Fiction
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Author : Emily Cox-Palmer-White
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-01-03
The Biopolitics Of Gender In Science Fiction written by Emily Cox-Palmer-White and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Questioning essentialist forms of feminist discourse, this work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist and gender theorists, such as Judith Butler and Donna Haraway, and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze. By analysing representations of the female cyborg figure, the gynoid, in science fiction literature, television, film and videogames, the work acknowledges its normative and subversive properties while also calling for a new feminist politics of selfhood and autonomy implied by the posthuman qualities of the female machine.
Lost In Space
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Author : Marleen S. Barr
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 1993
Lost In Space written by Marleen S. Barr and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Social Science categories.
Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary canons with radical a
Alien To Femininity
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Author : Marleen Barr
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1987-08-14
Alien To Femininity written by Marleen Barr and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-08-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers a first step toward spanning the gap between the writing of male critics of speculative fiction, who do not devote enough attention to the contributions of new female voices to this genre, and feminist critics, who should study a genre that opens all possibilities to women. Although Barr clarifies speculative texts for those who may not be familiar with them, her study is neither a complete survey of speculative fiction nor an introduction to the recent concerns of feminist theory; it applies contemporary feminist theory to contemporary speculative fiction.
Alien To Femininity
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Author : Marleen S. Barr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Alien To Femininity written by Marleen S. Barr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Cinema categories.
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Feminist Science Fiction Gender Aspects In Ursula K Le Guin S The Dispossessed And Feminist Criticism
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Author : Celine Briot
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2015-08-19
Feminist Science Fiction Gender Aspects In Ursula K Le Guin S The Dispossessed And Feminist Criticism written by Celine Briot and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Bonn (Anglistik), course: Science-Fiction, language: English, abstract: In recent decades the literary genre of Science Fiction has experienced a rising interest which might be attributed to the rapid technological development and the deep integration of it into daily life. Science Fiction offers writers a wide range of potential themes to explore and is thus a very complex genre. While often being considered male oriented, at least during the Feminist Movement in the 1960s, female authors found their way into the genre and raised questions about gender roles, political inequality and sexuality within their works. Among those female writers was Ursula K. Le Guin who gained wide recognition for her writing and is today regarded one of the most influential science-fiction and fantasy author of the twentieth century. Asscociated with feminist tendencies in her works, her most famous novel referred to be feminist science fiction is "The Left Hand of Darkness" in which she imagined an androgynous society in order to investigate what society would be if sex did not matter. But also many other of her works have received attention from critics interested in gender and feminism. In this paper I intend to analyse and discuss the depiction of gender and the realisation of feminist aspects in Le Guin's novel "The Dispossessed: An ambiguous Utopia". The novel won several important literary awards such as the Hugo and the Nebula and gained a lot of respect among critics for its great literary qualities and its extensive exploration of political ideas and social themes, including for example anarchism, capitalism and socialism. It is set on the fictional planets Urras and Anarres which inhabit two contrasting societies, one capitalist and class oriented and the other one following the principles of anarchism, avoiding any form of social hierarchy among its population. Anarres – apparently the utopian planet in Le Guin's work, is often called a feminist utopia for its conception of gender. However, Le Guin has been highly criticised from feminist for several problematic issues in her approach of sexual politics in the novel. The question therefore arises weather "The Dispossessed" really can be labeled feminist science-fiction and if Anarres really can be called a feminist utopia?
Aliens And Others
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Author : Jenny Wolmark
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 1994
Aliens And Others written by Jenny Wolmark and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
To Write Like A Woman
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Author : Joanna Russ
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1995-06-22
To Write Like A Woman written by Joanna Russ and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-06-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
"To Write Like a Woman is a rare example of a feminist tackling science fictuion using postmodern theory, which makes for a much more sophisticated and nuanced appraisal than the usual fare." —Passion "Russ' essays are witty and insightful. An excellent book for any writer or reader." —Feminist Bookstore News "In her new book of essays . . . Russ continues to debunk and demand, edify and entertain. . . . Appreciative of surface aesthetics, she continually delves deeper than most critics, yet in terms so simple and accessible that her essays read like lively, angry, humorous dialogues conducted face-to-face with the author. Russ is the antithesis of the distant critic in her ivory tower." —Paul Di Filippo, The Washington Post Book World " . . . 20 years of the author's feisty reports from the front lines of literature." —The San Francisco Review of Books "This is a book of imaginative and provoking essays, but you should read it for the sheer fun of it." —The Women's Review of Books "Collects more than two decades of criticism by Joanna Russ, one of the most perceptive, forthright and eloquent feminist commentators around." —Feminist Bookstore News " . . . a super book. . . .This is a book that, for once, really will appeal to readers of all kinds." —Utopian Studies "If you enjoy science fiction, this is definitely a book that you'll want to talk about. I found myself sneaking a few pages at times when I really didn't have time to read." —Jan Catano, Atlantis Classic essays on science fiction and feminism by Nebula and Hugo award-winning Joanna Russ. Here she ranges from a consideration of the aesthetic of science fiction to a reading of the lesbian identity of Willa Cather. To Write Like a Woman includes essays on horror stories and the supernatural, feminist utopias, popular literature for women (the "modern gothic"), and the feminist education of graduate students in English.
Feminist Fabulation
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Author : Marleen S. Barr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Feminist Fabulation written by Marleen S. Barr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with American fiction categories.
Branding the postmodern canon as a masculinist utopia and a nowhere for feminists, Barr offers the stunning argument that feminist science fiction is not science fiction at all but is really metafiction about patriarchal fiction. Barr's concern is directed every bit as much toward contemporary feminist critics as it is toward patriarchy. Rather than trying to reclaim lost feminist writers of the past, she suggests, feminist criticism should concentrate on reclaiming the present's lost fabulative feminist writers, writers steeped in nonpatriarchal definitions of reality who can guide us into another order of world altogether.