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Women, science and fiction revisited

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Women, science and fiction revisitedby Debra Benita Shaw.
Author:	Shaw, Debra Benita.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023.
Description:	vii, 181 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Science fiction, EnglishWomen authors
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25171-9
ISBN:	9783031251719$q(electronic bk.)

Women, science and fiction revisited
Shaw, Debra Benita.

Women, science and fiction revisited[electronic resource] /by Debra Benita Shaw. - Second edition. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - vii, 181 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine,2634-6443. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine..

1. Introduction: The Nearly Silent Listener -- 2. Herland: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Literature of the Beehive -- 3. Swastika Night: Katharine Burdekin and the Psychology of Scapegoating -- 4. 'No Woman Born': C. L. Moore's Dancing Cyborg -- 5. The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula Le Guin and the Haploid Heart -- 6. The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood and the Politics of Choice -- 7. The Power: Naomi Alderman and Archaeologies of Gender -- 8. The City We Became: N. K. Jemisin and Posthuman Urbanism.

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited is an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years from the point of view of their engagement with how science writes the world. Beginning with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1918) and ending with N K Jemisin's The City We Became (2020), Debra Benita Shaw explores the re-imagination of gender and race that characterises women's literary crafting of new worlds. Along the way, she introduces new readings of classics like Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, examining the original novels in the context of their adaptation to new media formats in the twenty-first century. What this reveals is a consistent preoccupation with how scientific ideas can be employed to challenge existing social structures and argue for change.

ISBN: 9783031251719$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-25171-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

950882
Science fiction, English
--Women authors

LC Class. No.: PR830.S35

Dewey Class. No.: 823.08762099287

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