Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction

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 technologie...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vint, Sherryl (Editor), Buran, Sümeyra (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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