Technologies of feminist speculative fiction : gender, artificial life, and the politics of reproduction /: gender, artificial life, and the politics of reproduction. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sherryl Vint, Sümeyra Buran.
• Editors: Vint, Sherryl, 1969-; Buran, Sümeyra
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Sociotechnical Design and the Future of GenderPart I Reproductive Technologies2. Ectogenesis on the NHS: Reproduction and Privatization in Twenty-first-Century British Science Fiction3. Being an Artificial Womb Machine-Human4. Environmental Sterilization through Reproductive Sterilization in Sarah Hall's The Carhullan Army5. Groomed for Survival – Queer Reproductive Technologies and Cross-Species Assemblages in Larissa Lai's The Tiger FluPart II Reimagining the Woman6. A Housewife's Dream? Automation and the Problem of Women's Free Time7. Motherhood Beyond Woman: I Am [a Good] Mother and Predecessors Onscreen8. Gender and Reproduction in the Dystopian Works of Sayaka Murata9. Cyborg Separatism: Feminist Utopia in Athena's ChoicePart III Queering Gender10. Drowning in the Cloud: Water, the Digital and the Queer Potential of Feminist Science Fiction11. Making the Multiple: Gender and the Technologies of Multiplicity in Cyberpunk Science Fiction12. Lesbian Cyborgs and the Blueprints for LiberationPart IV Posthuman Females13. Becoming Woman: Healing and Posthuman Subjectivity in Garland's Ex Machina14. Female Ageing and Technological Reproduction. Feminist Transhuman Embodiments in Jasper Fforde's The Woman Who Died A Lot15. 'Growgirls' and Cultured Eggs: Food Futures, and Feminism in SF from the Global South16. Reproductive Futurism, Indigenous Futurism, and the (Non)Human to Come in Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.3876; Speculative fiction -- History and criticism; Feminism in literature; Women in literature; Artificial intelligence in literature; Reproductive technology in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030961923
• Related ISBNs: 9783030961916
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