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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"feminist science fiction"”.
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Queering the family as an act of resistance, transformation, and hope in Indigenous futurist, Afrofuturist, and New Wave feminist science fiction
… examines queer representations of the family in feminist, Afrofuturist, and Indigenous futurist science fiction (sf), focusing on how authors kept to the margins of the genre—women, Black, and Indigenous authors—use sf to challenge heteronormative family ideology. Although science fiction …
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Excavating Radical Futures: Puppets, Robots, And The Fight For Technology
… Foundation, and the history of cybernetics and science fiction. Examining this history uncovers the implicit and explicit values and assumptions embedded in the objects and technologies themselves, as well as how popular understandings and representations of those objects can reinforce or …
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Gender ambivalence, fragmented self, and the subversive nature of James Tiptree, Jr.'s science fiction
<p>James Tiptree, Jr.’s fiction which first appeared in the SF world in 1968 presents a paradox. Having established herself as an influential science fiction male writer for a decade, Alice Sheldon successfully defied preconceived notions about masculine and feminine writing styles. Her two adopted …
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Mediating Moore: Uncertain Origins and Indeterminate Identities in the Work of C. L. Moore
… L.: Lucille) Moore, one of the earliest female science fiction writers, is widely regarded by SF writers, editors, and fans as one of the field’s most influential founding mothers, with female SF writer Marion Zimmer Bradley claiming Moore as the "mother" of all women who write science …
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Painting life in extremes Charles Maturin and the Gothic genre
… works such as 1984 or The Trial, Maturin's fiction is very much a part of its age. After a chapter that explores the history of 'the Gothic', my thesis focuses on the particular context of Maturin's period, mapping it initially by examining the responses to his work that appeared in print …
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Synthetic Women: Gender, Power, and Humanoid Sex Robots
… from gender studies, cultural studies, and feminist technoscience literature, this dissertation employs an interdisciplinary approach to analyze the androcentric imaginaries through which humanoid sex robots ("sexbots") emerge. Specifically, I utilize sexbots to interrogate and reflect on …