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 Haraways influential Cyborg Manifesto was published. With sections exploring reproductive technologies, new ways of imagining femininity and motherhood via artificial means, queer readings of gender as a social technology, and posthuman visions of a world beyond gender, this book demonstrates how feminist speculative fiction offers an urgently needed response to the intersections of womens bodies and technology. This collection brings together authors from Europe, Japan, the US and the UK to consider speculative films and texts, reproductive technologies and food futures, and opportunities to rethink family, aging, gender and sexuality, and community through feminist speculative fiction, a social technology for building better futures.
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This innovative and important collection will be useful to scholars of sf literature and film, as well as to those particularly interested in the analysis of potentially liberatory or oppressive effects of current and developing technologies. This book is an extremely useful and timely intervention and the editors succeed in their announced goal . (Sara Hosey, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 50, 2023)
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 Halls 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
Housewifes Dream? Automation and the Problem of Womens 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 Athenas 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 Garlands Ex Machina.-
14. Female Ageing and Technological Reproduction. Feminist Transhuman
Embodiments in Jasper Ffordes 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 Erdrichs Future Home of the Living God.
Sherryl Vint is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She has published widely on speculative fiction, including Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction (2021) and the edited collection After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century (2020).
Sümeyra Buran is an Associate Professor of English at Istanbul Medeniyet University (IMU), Turkey and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She is the founding and coordinating editor of Journal of Posthumanism, editor of the collection Edebiyatta Posthümanizm (2020) and editor of the Posthumanism Series for Transnational Press London.
