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Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction

Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction

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Editors:
  1. Sherryl Vint

    1. Department of English, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA

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  2. Sümeyra Buran

    1. Visiting Research Scholar, Department of English University of Florida (Associate Professor of English, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey), Florida, USA

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  • Explores reproductive technologies and politics through feminist science fiction
  • Highlights the gendered impact of technology and biotechnology on women’s bodies and agency
  • Considers futures of gender, the environment, women’s roles with technology, and AI

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture (PSSPC)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: Sociotechnical Design and the Future of Gender

    • Sherryl Vint
    Pages 1-17
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Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway’s influential “Cyborg Manifesto” was published. With sections exploring reproductive technologies, new ways of imagining femininity and motherhood via artificial means, queer readings of gender as a social technology, and posthuman visions of a world beyond gender, this book demonstrates how feminist speculative fiction offers an urgently needed response to the intersections of women’s bodies and technology. This collection brings together authors from Europe, Japan, the US and the UK to consider speculative films and texts, reproductive technologies and food futures, and opportunities to rethink family, aging, gender and sexuality, and community through feminist speculative fiction, a social technology for building better futures.

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“This innovative and important collection will be useful to scholars of sf literature and film, as well as to those particularly interested in the analysis of potentially liberatory or oppressive effects of current and developing technologies. … This book is an extremely useful and timely intervention and the editors succeed in their announced goal … .” (Sara Hosey, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 50, 2023) “This is a significant feminist intervention into the many ways in which the lives of women are being impacted across the world by the increasingly intimate technological productions of neoliberal hypercapitalist biopower. Contributors from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the US offer informed and informative readings of a diverse range of speculative fictions across media. In this context, speculative fiction works to defamiliarize a future-present of pervasive automation, increasingly sophisticated assistive reproductive technologies, developments in future-food technologies, robotics and artificial intelligence, bioengineering, and genetic science. Contributors also suggest sites of potential resistance through hybrid figures such as the cyborg, the queer, and the posthuman, and through the insights of non-western epistemologies such as indigenous futurism.”

—Veronica Hollinger, emerita professor, Trent University, Canada

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA

    Sherryl Vint

  • Visiting Research Scholar, Department of English University of Florida (Associate Professor of English, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey), Florida, USA

    Sümeyra Buran

About the editors

Sherryl Vint is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She has published widely on speculative fiction, including Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction (2021) and the edited collection After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century (2020). 

Sümeyra Buran is an Associate Professor of English at Istanbul Medeniyet University (IMU), Turkey and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She is the founding and coordinating editor of Journal of Posthumanism, editor of the collection Edebiyatta Posthümanizm (2020) and editor of the Posthumanism Series for Transnational Press London.

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