Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism
Almost 20 years after the publication of Future Females: A Critical Anthology, feminist science fiction pioneer Marleen S. Barr, together with a talented crew of the field's established and emerging theorists, reveal new critical insights in Future Females, the Next Generation. This groundbreaking collection includes contributors from across the globe who find effective venues for imagining feminist thought experiments.

A multinational perspective runs through this innovative volume, focusing on the latest dynamic trends in feminist science fiction. These include such issues as race, gender, cyberfeminism, the media, and new writers in the field. Future Females, the Next Generation, which establishes the generational continuity characterizing a vibrant area of feminist literary and cultural inquiry, boldly goes where no feminist science fiction critical anthology has gone before.
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Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism
Almost 20 years after the publication of Future Females: A Critical Anthology, feminist science fiction pioneer Marleen S. Barr, together with a talented crew of the field's established and emerging theorists, reveal new critical insights in Future Females, the Next Generation. This groundbreaking collection includes contributors from across the globe who find effective venues for imagining feminist thought experiments.

A multinational perspective runs through this innovative volume, focusing on the latest dynamic trends in feminist science fiction. These include such issues as race, gender, cyberfeminism, the media, and new writers in the field. Future Females, the Next Generation, which establishes the generational continuity characterizing a vibrant area of feminist literary and cultural inquiry, boldly goes where no feminist science fiction critical anthology has gone before.
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Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism

Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism

Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism

Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism

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Almost 20 years after the publication of Future Females: A Critical Anthology, feminist science fiction pioneer Marleen S. Barr, together with a talented crew of the field's established and emerging theorists, reveal new critical insights in Future Females, the Next Generation. This groundbreaking collection includes contributors from across the globe who find effective venues for imagining feminist thought experiments.

A multinational perspective runs through this innovative volume, focusing on the latest dynamic trends in feminist science fiction. These include such issues as race, gender, cyberfeminism, the media, and new writers in the field. Future Females, the Next Generation, which establishes the generational continuity characterizing a vibrant area of feminist literary and cultural inquiry, boldly goes where no feminist science fiction critical anthology has gone before.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780847691258
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/22/2000
Edition description: KDenn
Pages: 250
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Marleen S. Barr is the author of many books and articles about feminist science fiction, including Future Females: A Critical Anthology (The Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1981); Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction (University of Iowa Press, 1992) and Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond (University of North Carolina Press, 1993). Barr, whose forthcoming book, Genre Seepage: A New Discourse Practice (University of Iowa Press), is the recipient of the 1997 Science Fiction Research Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in Science Fiction Criticism. She is a visiting professor in the Humanities Department at Montclair State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction, "Everything's Coming Up Roses": Or, Mainstream Feminist Science Fiction, the Uncola
Part 3 One: Utopia and Dystopia: A New Genre, Ecotopia, and the 1990s
Chapter 4 1 Gender and Genre in the Feminist Critical Dystopias of Katharine Burdekin, Margaret Atwood, and Octavia Butler
Chapter 5 2 Revising Paradise: Judy Grahn's Ecotopia Mundane's World
Chapter 6 3 The Feminist Dystopia of the 1990s: Record of Failure, Midwife of Hope
Chapter 7 4 Post-Phallic Culture: Reality Now Resembles Utopian Feminist Science Fiction
Part 8 Two: Alternative Cyberpunk: Marge Piercy, Jeff Noon, and Pat Cadigan
Chapter 9 5 The Biopolitics of Cyberspace: Piercy Hacks Gibson
Chapter 10 6 A Crossbreed Lonliness: Jeff Noon's Feminist Cyberpunk
Chapter 11 7 Real Lives Complicate Matters in Schrödinger's World: Pat Cadigan's Alternative Cyberpunk Vision
Part 12 Three: Sex/Gender: Eroticizing Cyborgs and Queering Science Fiction
Chapter 13 8 The Erotics of the (Cy)borg: Authority and Gender in the Sociocultural Imaginary
Chapter 14 9 Pin-Up and Cyborg: Exaggerated Gender and Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 15 10 (Re)reading Queerly: Science Fiction, Feminism, and the Defamiliarization of Gender
Part 16 Four: First Contacts: Re-Reading Jaoanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin and South Africa, and Eleanor Arnason's Other
Chapter 17 11 Determinate Politics of Indeterminacy: Reading Joanna Russ's Recent Work in Light of her Early Fiction
Chapter 18 12 Truth and Story: History in Ursula K. Le Guin's Short Fiction and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Chapter 19 13 Incite/On Site/Insight: Implication of the Other in Eleanor Arnason's Science Fiction
Part 20 Five: New Female Heroes: Mexican Women and Chicanas, the Star Trek Scientist, and Tank Girl
Chapter 21 14 Mexican Women and Chicanas Enter Future Fiction
Chapter 22 15 The Woman Scientist in Star Trek: Voyager
Chapter 23 16 Postfeminism and the Female Action-Adventure Hero: Positioning "Tank Girl"
Chapter 24 Postscript: A Real Future Female: Dreams, Truth, and Hope
Chapter 25 Index
Chapter 26 About the Contributors
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