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Gender and Environment in Science Fiction focuses on the variety of ways that gender and “nature” interact in science fiction films and fictions, exploring questions of different realities and posing new ones. Science fiction asks questions to propose other ways of living; it asks what if, and that question is the basis for alternative narratives of ourselves and the world we are a part of. What if humans could terraform planets? What if we could create human-nonhuman hybrids? What if artificial intelligence gains consciousness? What if we could realize kinship with other species through heightened empathy or traumatic experiences? What if we imagine a world without oil? The texts analyzed in this book ask these questions and others, exploring how humans and nonhumans are connected; how nonhuman biologies can offer diverse ways to think about human sex, gender, and sexual orientation; and how interpretive strategies can subvert the messages of older films and written texts.

Table of Contents

Part One: Performing Humanity, Animality, and Gender

Chapter One: Female Beasties: Camp Resistance in 1950s Wom-Animal Creature Features

Bridgitte Barclay

Chapter Two: “Either you’re mine or you’re not mine”: Controlling Gender, Nature, and Technology in Her and Ex Machina

Christy Tidwell

Chapter Three: Octavia Butler and the Language of the Flesh: Re-Writing Nature in Wild Seed

Amelia Z. Greene

Part Two: Gendering the Natural World

Chapter Four: Tendrils, Tentacles, and Flower Power: Speciesism in Womaneater (1958) and The Gardener (1974)

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Juan Juvé

Chapter Five: “So Very Natural an Occurrence”: Engendering Nature’s Antagonism in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man

Steve Asselin

Part Three: Contemporary Queering



Chapter Six: Engineered Nature, (En)gendered Nature in Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312

Tyler Harper

Chapter Seven: Ecologies of Sound: Queer Intimacy, Trans-Corporeality, and Reproduction in

Upstream Color

Stina Attebery

Part Four: “We Don’t Need Another Hero”

Chapter Eight: Nature Boys & Bears in Pants: Ecoqueer Hybrid Heroes in Atomic Age Comics

Jill E. Anderson

Chapter Nine: Saving Eden: Whiteness, Masculinity, and Environmental Nostalgia in Soylent Green and WALL-E

Michelle Yates

Chapter Ten: Mad Max: Beyond Petroleum?

Carter Soles

Product details

Published Nov 23 2018
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 238
ISBN 9781498580571
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Bridgitte Barclay

Anthology Editor

Christy Tidwell

Contributor

Steve Asselin

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Stina Attebery

Contributor

Tyler Harper

Contributor

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is Professor in the…

Contributor

Juan Juvé

Contributor

Carter Soles

Contributor

Christy Tidwell

Contributor

Michelle Yates

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