The postworld in-between utopia and dystopia : intersectional, feminist, and non-binary approaches in 21st century speculative culture /
"This collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film and art, working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a wider, global, epistemological, critical...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2022.
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| Series: | Interdisciplinary research in gender
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: A utopian/dystopian spectrum : from fear to friendship, from consent to coercion / Gregory Claeys
- Introduction: Utopia and dystopia in the 21st century : feminism, intersectionality, and the rejection of binarism / Katarzyna Ostalska, Tomasz Fisiak
- Between anthropocenic dystopia and ecological utopia. In need of new narratives : feminist ustopian fiction challenging the anthropocene / Alessandra Boller
- Post-anthropocentric ethics of care in turn-of-the-century fiction / Katarzyna Więckowska
- Environmental dys/utopian short stories in Olga Tokarczuk's Opowiadania Bizarne / Agnieszka Łowczanin
- The materiality of posthuman intersections and speculative discourse in fiction and art. Critical hope : relationalities in 21st-century speculative fiction and art / Dunja M. Mohr
- The mesotopia : from speculative realism to speculative artistic events / Tristan Verran
- Neganthropic architecture(s) : Renee Gladman's speculative reorientation of science-fiction / Małgorzata Myk
- Between history and sexual politics : alternate herstories and historical alternatives. Temporal politics : entangling fictions, futures, and histories in contemporary and historical speculative fiction / Adam Stock
- Utopia of intimacy : "The fear of the flesh," hyper-sexualisation, libidinal exhaustion, and a new sexual politics beyond Oedipal (wo)man / Mark Featherstone
- Do cyborgs dream of (becoming) people? : the alternative non-human self in Ian McEwan's Machines like me / Tomasz Dobrogoszcz
- In-between feminist and postfeminist dys/utopias. Twenty-first century gileads : feminist dystopian fiction after Atwood
- The handmaid's tale, Natural way of things, The water cure, and The testaments / Fiona Tolan
- A rage of her own : the unpredictable powers of female flight in Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix / Svetlana Stefanova
- Feminist utopianism in the posthuman worlds of Last ones left alive by Sarah Davis-Goff and Individutopia by Joss Sheldon / Katarzyna Ostalska
- Developing the F-word : representing adolescent womanhood and race in young-adult dystopian novels / Cristina Paravano
- Beyond the gender and structural binaries in dys/utopian cinema. Alien bodies, alien selves : Under the skin (2013) and beyond / Tomasz Fisiak
- Dys/utopian narratives on the screen : beyond the binaries in Children of men and The lobster / Emrah Atasoy
- Zombie mayhem in Austen's Hertfordshire
- intersectionality of class and gender politics in Burr Steers's Pride and prejudice and zombies / Magdalena Cieślak
- "Where did all you zombies come from?" : gendered pasts, presents and futures in Robert Heinlein's "All You Zombies" and the film adaptation Predestination / Emily Cox-Palmer-White.