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

Other author Tidwell, Christy editor.
Other author Barclay, Bridgitte, editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationLanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2019]
Description1 online resource (xxii, 215 pages).
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
Subjects

SeriesEcocritical Theory and Practice
Ecocritical theory and practice. ^A1257559
Contents Introduction / Bridgitte Barclay and Christy Tidwell -- Part I: Performing Humanity, Animality, and Gender. Female Beasties: Camp Resistance in 1950s Wom-Animal Creature Features / Bridgitte Barclay -- "Either you're mine or you're not mine": Controlling Gender, Nature, and Technology in Her and Ex Machina / Christy Tidwell -- Octavia Butler and the Language of the Flesh: Re-Writing Nature in Wild Seed / Amelia Z. Greene -- Part II: Gendering the Natural World. Tendrils, Tentacles, and Flower Power: Speciesism in Womaneater (1958) and The Gardener (1974) / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Juan Juvé -- "So Very Natural an Occurrence": Engendering Nature's Antagonism in Mary Shelley's The Last Man / Steve Asselin -- Part III: Contemporary Queering. Engineered Nature, (En)gendered Nature in Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 / Tyler Harper -- Ecologies of Sound: Queer Intimacy, Trans-Corporeality, and Reproduction in Upstream Color / Stina Attebery -- Part IV: "We Don't Need Another Hero" -- Nature Boys & Bears in Pants: Ecoqueer Hybrid Heroes in Atomic Age Comics / Jill E. Anderson -- Saving Eden: Whiteness, Masculinity, and Environmental Nostalgia in Soylent Green and WALL-E / Michelle Yates -- Mad Max: Beyond Petroleum? / Carter Soles.
Abstract This book examines the often-complex relationships between issues of gender and the environment in science fiction films and fiction. Its contributors discuss a range of texts: early apocalyptic science fiction, campy midcentury science fiction films, Silver Age superhero comics, and twenty-first-century science fiction films and literature.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 28, 2019).
Issued in other formPrint version: Gender and environment in science fiction. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018] 9781498580571
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2019000302
ISBN9781498580588 (electronic book)
ISBN1498580580 (electronic book)
ISBN(hardcover alkaline paper)
ISBN(hardcover alkaline paper)
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