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 |
| Publication | Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2019] |
| Description | 1 online resource (xxii, 215 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Ecocritical 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 28, 2019). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Gender and environment in science fiction. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018] 9781498580571 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2019000302 |
| ISBN | 9781498580588 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1498580580 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| Stock number | 9781498580588 Ingram Content Group |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |