ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction is the first large-scale reference work of its kind, critically assessing the relations of gender and genre in science fiction (SF) especially—but not exclusively—as explored in speculative art by women and LGBTQ+ artists across the world.
This global volume builds upon the traditions of interdisciplinary inquiry by connecting established topics in gender studies and science fiction studies with emergent ideas from researchers in different media. Taken together, they challenge conventional generic boundaries; provide new ways of approaching familiar texts; recover lost artists and introduce new ones; connect the revival of old, hate-based politics with the increasing visibility of imagined futures for all; and show how SF stories about new kinds of gender relations inspire new models of artistic, technoscientific, and political practice. Their chapters are grouped into five conversations—about the history of gender and genre, theoretical frameworks, subjectivities, medias and transmedialities, and transtemporalities—that are central to discussions of gender and SF in the current moment. A range of both emerging and established names in media, literature, and cultural studies engage with a huge diversity of topics including eco-criticism, animal studies, cyborg and posthumanist theory, masculinity, critical race studies, Indigenous futurisms, Black girlhood, and gaming.
This is an essential resource for students and scholars studying gender, sexuality, and/or science fiction.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|19 pages
What
chapter 1|8 pages
Introduction
part II|95 pages
How
chapter 5|8 pages
Beyond Survival
chapter 6|8 pages
Collective Close Reading: Queer SF and the Methodology of the Many
chapter 8|8 pages
Renovating the System
chapter 11|8 pages
Making the End Times Great Again
chapter 12|8 pages
Decoding Masculinity in 21st-Century Science Fiction by Men
chapter 13|7 pages
“I Came for the ‘Pew-Pew Space Battles’; I Stayed for the Autism”
part III|88 pages
Who
chapter 19|7 pages
Like “A Bolt out of the Blue”
chapter 20|8 pages
New Pronouns and New Uses
chapter 22|7 pages
Speculations Against Gender Discrimination
chapter 24|8 pages
Trans Without Trans?
chapter 25|7 pages
Unruly Bodies
chapter 26|7 pages
Good Wives and Mothers in the Universe
chapter 27|8 pages
Goddesses, Broods, and Hominids
part IV|94 pages
Where
chapter 31|9 pages
Subverting, Re-fashioning, or Re-inscribing the Power of the Male Gaze
part V|96 pages
When