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Gender and environment in science fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tidwell, Christy (Editor), Barclay, Bridgitte (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
Series:Ecocritical theory and practice.
Subjects:
Science fiction > History and criticism.
Science fiction films > History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Bridgitte Barclay and Christy Tidwell
  • Part One: Performing Humanity, Animality, and Gender. Chapter One: Female Beasties: Camp Resistance in 1950s Wom-Animal Creature Features / Bridgitte Barclay
  • Chapter Two: "Either you're mine or you're not mine": Controlling Gender, Nature, and Technology in Her and Ex Machina / Christy Tidwell
  • Chapter Three: Octavia Butler and the Language of the Flesh: Re-Writing Nature in Wild Seed / Amelia Z. Greene
  • Part Two: Gendering the Natural World. Chapter Four: Tendrils, Tentacles, and Flower Power: Speciesism in Womaneater (1958) and The Gardener (1974) / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Juan JuvĂ©
  • Chapter Five: "So Very Natural an Occurrence": Engendering Nature's Antagonism in Mary Shelley's The Last Man / Steve Asselin
  • Part Three: Contemporary Queering. Chapter Six: Engineered Nature, (En)gendered Nature in Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 / Tyler Harper
  • Chapter Seven: Ecologies of Sound: Queer Intimacy, Trans-Corporeality, and Reproduction in Upstream Color / Stina Attebery
  • Part Four: "We Don't Need Another Hero"
  • Chapter Eight: Nature Boys & Bears in Pants: Ecoqueer Hybrid Heroes in Atomic Age Comics / Jill E. Anderson
  • Chapter Nine: Saving Eden: Whiteness, Masculinity, and Environmental Nostalgia in Soylent Green and WALL-E / Michelle Yates
  • Chapter Ten: Mad Max: Beyond Petroleum? / Carter Soles.