Gender and environment in science fiction / edited by Christy Tidwell and Bridgitte Barclay.

Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Series:

Ecocritical theory and practice.
Ecocritical theory and practice

Format/Description:

Book
xxii, 215 pages ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Science fiction films -- History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Nature in literature.
Nature in motion pictures.
Science fiction.
Science fiction films.
Sex differences in literature.

Form/Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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 Juve
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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Tidwell, Christy, editor.
Barclay, Bridgitte, editor.

Other format:

Online version: Gender and environment in science fiction

ISBN:

9781498580571
1498580572
9781498580588

OCLC:

1078895149

Publisher Number:

99980403514

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