Feminist Philosophy And Science Fiction

Author : Judith A. Little
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015070748952

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Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction by Judith A. Little Pdf

Using selections from writers like Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree jr., and many others, this collection shows how the imagined worlds of science fiction create hold experiments for testing feminist hypotheses and for interpreting philosophical questions about humanity, gender, equality and more. Four main themes: Part 1, 'Human nature and reality', concentrates on whether there is an intrinsic difference between males and females. Part 2, 'Dystopias: the worst of all possible worlds', portrays misogynistic societies uncomfortably familiar to the early 21st-century reader. Part 3, 'Separatist utopias: worlds of difference', assembles stories that scrutinize both the virtues and vices of separatism. In Part 4, 'Androgynous utopias: worlds of equality', the authors create worlds that anticipate the consequences, good and bad, of perfect sexual equality in education, intelligence, capability, and reproduction.

Author : Ritch Calvin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319324708

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Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology by Ritch Calvin Pdf

This book argues that feminist science fiction shares the same concerns as feminist epistemology—challenges to the sex of the knower, the valuation of the abstract over the concrete, the dismissal of the physical, the focus on rationality and reason, the devaluation of embodied knowledge, and the containment of (some) bodies. Ritch Calvin argues that feminist science fiction asks questions of epistemology because those questions are central to making claims of subjectivity and identity. Calvin reveals how women, who have historically been marginal to the deliberations of philosophy and science, have made significant contributions to the reconsideration and reformulation of the epistemological models of the world and the individuals in it.

Author : Emily Cox-Palmer-White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000329704

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The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction by Emily Cox-Palmer-White Pdf

Questioning essentialist forms of feminist discourse, this work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist and gender theorists, such as Judith Butler and Donna Haraway, and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze. By analysing representations of the female cyborg figure, the gynoid, in science fiction literature, television, film and videogames, the work acknowledges its normative and subversive properties while also calling for a new feminist politics of selfhood and autonomy implied by the posthuman qualities of the female machine.

Author : Marleen S. Barr
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469639765

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Lost in Space by Marleen S. Barr Pdf

Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary canons with radical alternatives to mainstream patriarchal society. Because feminist science fiction challenges male-centered social imperatives, it has been marginalized and dismissed from the canon--thus, lost in space. Moving beyond feminist science fiction itself, Barr goes on to examine other literary genres from the perspective of 'feminist fabulation'--a term she has coined to encompass science fiction, fantasy, utopian literature, and mainstream literature that critiques patriarchal fictions. Discussing the works of such writers as Margaret Atwood, Joanna Russ, Salman Rushdie, Paul Theroux, Ursula Le Guin, Herman Melville, Saul Bellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Marge Piercy, Barr illuminates feminist science fiction's connections to other literary traditions and contemporary canons. Her critical analysis yields a new and expanded understanding of feminist creativity.

Author : Jenny Wolmark
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0877454477

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Aliens and Others by Jenny Wolmark Pdf

Author : Alison Stone
Publisher : Polity
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745638829

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An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy by Alison Stone Pdf

This is the first book to offer a systematic account of feminist philosophy as a distinctive field of philosophy. The book introduces key issues and debates in feminist philosophy including: the nature of sex, gender, and the body; the relation between gender, sexuality, and sexual difference; whether there is anything that all women have in common; and the nature of birth and its centrality to human existence. An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy shows how feminist thinking on these and related topics has developed since the 1960s. The book also explains how feminist philosophy relates to the many forms of feminist politics. The book provides clear, succinct and readable accounts of key feminist thinkers including de Beauvoir, Butler, Gilligan, Irigaray, and MacKinnon. The book also introduces other thinkers who have influenced feminist philosophy including Arendt, Foucault, Freud, and Lacan. Accessible in approach, this book is ideal for students and researchers interested in feminist philosophy, feminist theory, women's studies, and political theory. It will also appeal to the general reader.

Author : Patrick B. Sharp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Feminist fiction
ISBN : 1786832291

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Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction by Patrick B. Sharp Pdf

Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction reveals a lost history of women's science fiction and shows how it was shaped by the work of Britain's greatest scientist.

Author : Annie Potts
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 041525731X

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The Science/fiction of Sex by Annie Potts Pdf

Contemporary feminist and poststructuralist theories of sex and gender are explored alongside an investigation of how people make sense of such concepts as heterosexuality, orgasm, sexual dysfunction and femininity and masculinity.

Author : Marleen S. Barr
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807844217

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Lost in Space by Marleen S. Barr Pdf

Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary canons with radical a

Author : Carol Hay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781324003106

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Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution by Carol Hay Pdf

An audacious and accessible guide to feminist philosophy—its origins, its key ideas, and its latest directions. Think Like a Feminist is an irreverent yet rigorous primer that unpacks over two hundred years of feminist thought. In a time when the word feminism triggers all sorts of responses, many of them conflicting and misinformed, Professor Carol Hay provides this balanced, clarifying, and inspiring examination of what it truly means to be a feminist today. She takes the reader from conceptual questions of sex, gender, intersectionality, and oppression to the practicalities of talking to children, navigating consent, and fighting for adequate space on public transit, without deviating from her clear, accessible, conversational tone. Think Like a Feminist is equally a feminist starter kit and an advanced refresher course, connecting longstanding controversies to today’s headlines. Think Like a Feminist takes on many of the essential questions that feminism has risen up to answer: Is it nature or nurture that’s responsible for our gender roles and identities? How is sexism connected to racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of oppression? Who counts as a woman, and who gets to decide? Why have men gotten away with rape and other forms of sexual violence for so long? What responsibility do women themselves bear for maintaining sexism? What, if anything, can we do to make society respond to women’s needs and desires? Ferocious, insightful, practical, and unapologetically opinionated, Think Like a Feminist is the perfect book for anyone who wants to understand the continuing effects of misogyny in society. By exploring the philosophy underlying the feminist movement, Carol Hay brings today’s feminism into focus, so we can deliberately shape the feminist future.

Author : Marleen S. Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Cinema
ISBN : OCLC:14586155

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Alien to Femininity by Marleen S. Barr Pdf

In science fiction

Author : Marleen Barr
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015013008084

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Alien to Femininity by Marleen Barr Pdf

This book offers a first step toward spanning the gap between the writing of male critics of speculative fiction, who do not devote enough attention to the contributions of new female voices to this genre, and feminist critics, who should study a genre that opens all possibilities to women. Although Barr clarifies speculative texts for those who may not be familiar with them, her study is neither a complete survey of speculative fiction nor an introduction to the recent concerns of feminist theory; it applies contemporary feminist theory to contemporary speculative fiction.

Author : Marleen S. Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39076001346894

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Feminist Fabulation by Marleen S. Barr Pdf

Branding the postmodern canon as a masculinist utopia and a nowhere for feminists, Barr offers the stunning argument that feminist science fiction is not science fiction at all but is really metafiction about patriarchal fiction. Barr's concern is directed every bit as much toward contemporary feminist critics as it is toward patriarchy. Rather than trying to reclaim lost feminist writers of the past, she suggests, feminist criticism should concentrate on reclaiming the present's lost fabulative feminist writers, writers steeped in nonpatriarchal definitions of reality who can guide us into another order of world altogether.

Author : Nancy Tuana
Publisher : Paragon Issues in Philosophy
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015029937532

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Woman and the History of Philosophy by Nancy Tuana Pdf

Examined through the theories of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Rousseau, Kant, Hume, Locke, and Hegel.

Author : Celine Briot
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783668032743

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Feminist Science-Fiction? Gender Aspects in Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Dispossessed" and Feminist Criticism by Celine Briot Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Bonn (Anglistik), course: Science-Fiction, language: English, abstract: In recent decades the literary genre of Science Fiction has experienced a rising interest which might be attributed to the rapid technological development and the deep integration of it into daily life. Science Fiction offers writers a wide range of potential themes to explore and is thus a very complex genre. While often being considered male oriented, at least during the Feminist Movement in the 1960s, female authors found their way into the genre and raised questions about gender roles, political inequality and sexuality within their works. Among those female writers was Ursula K. Le Guin who gained wide recognition for her writing and is today regarded one of the most influential science-fiction and fantasy author of the twentieth century. Asscociated with feminist tendencies in her works, her most famous novel referred to be feminist science fiction is "The Left Hand of Darkness" in which she imagined an androgynous society in order to investigate what society would be if sex did not matter. But also many other of her works have received attention from critics interested in gender and feminism. In this paper I intend to analyse and discuss the depiction of gender and the realisation of feminist aspects in Le Guin's novel "The Dispossessed: An ambiguous Utopia". The novel won several important literary awards such as the Hugo and the Nebula and gained a lot of respect among critics for its great literary qualities and its extensive exploration of political ideas and social themes, including for example anarchism, capitalism and socialism. It is set on the fictional planets Urras and Anarres which inhabit two contrasting societies, one capitalist and class oriented and the other one following the principles of anarchism, avoiding any form of social hierarchy among its population. Anarres – apparently the utopian planet in Le Guin's work, is often called a feminist utopia for its conception of gender. However, Le Guin has been highly criticised from feminist for several problematic issues in her approach of sexual politics in the novel. The question therefore arises weather "The Dispossessed" really can be labeled feminist science-fiction and if Anarres really can be called a feminist utopia?