{"product_id":"future-females-the-next-generation-9780847691258","title":"Future Females The Next Generation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA multinational perspective runs through this volume, which focuses on dynamic trends in feminist science fiction. The contributions include discussions of such issues as race, gender, cyberfeminism, the media, and new writers in the field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFuture Females is THE final word on feminist science fiction and edited superbly by the premiere feminist in the field. The collection is wide-ranging and engaging, and entertains as it educates. It does everything that popular culture and feminist scholarship should do, and is a model for future outstanding work. -- Emily Toth, author of Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia\u003cbr\u003eAn important critical work in and of itself.  The two books called Future Females together mark the beginning and the latest point of the entire feminist enterprise in the serious consideration of science fiction.  Barr's most audacious utopian reading is surely that of 'all the president's penises', that is to say, her treatment of the Leader of the Free World, here celebrated as 'the president who makes love not war' and as one who 'is almost synonymous with his nonphallic penis.'. . . The only politically decent defense of Bill Clinton yet attempted . . . Barr offers not political journalism but a theoretical fiction.  Extending Woolf's trope we might hope that this same extraterrestrial visitor would find time to pursue not only the dailynewspaper but also the new Future Females; if so, she—or he? or it?—would learn that patriarchy, while not yet overthrown, is under creative attack in more ways that even the far-seeing Woolf herself could possibly have imagined. -- Carl Freedman, professor and director of graduate studies, Louisiana State University * Science Fiction Studies, Vol.27 (2000) *\u003cbr\u003eThe content is quite valuable. Excellent for feminist and science-fiction collections serving upper-division undergraduates and above. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eBears evidence to the innovative impact of feminism on science fiction and of feminist theory on science fiction criticism. The bravura displayed in the choice of subject matter, the range of topics and the wittily adapted terminology owe a great deal to the earlier pioneering efforts in the field, also collected by Barr. This collection points out how much that was formerly merely imagined has become a social reality even as its authors must continue to engage in writing toward utopia. Their essays are an exercise in cultural studies of the future. -- Brigitte Scheer-Schäzler, University of Innsbruck\u003cbr\u003eAn important critical work in and of itself. The two books called Future Females together mark the beginning and the latest point of the entire feminist enterprise in the serious consideration of science fiction. Barr's most audacious utopian reading is surely that of 'all the president's penises', that is to say, her treatment of the Leader of the Free World, here celebrated as 'the president who makes love not war' and as one who 'is almost synonymous with his nonphallic penis.'. . . The only politically decent defense of Bill Clinton yet attempted . . . Barr offers not political journalism but a theoretical fiction. Extending Woolf's trope we might hope that this same extraterrestrial visitor would find time to pursue not only the daily newspaper but also the new Future Females; if so, she—or he? or it?—would learn that patriarchy, while not yet overthrown, is under creative attack in more ways that even the far-seeing Woolf herself could possibly have imagined. -- Carl Freedman, professor and director of graduate studies, Louisiana State University * Science Fiction Studies, Vol.27 (2000) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction, \"Everything's Coming Up Roses\": Or, Mainstream Feminist Science Fiction, the Uncola Part 3 One: Utopia and Dystopia: A New Genre, Ecotopia, and the 1990s\t Chapter 4 1  Gender and Genre in the Feminist Critical Dystopias of Katharine Burdekin, Margaret Atwood, and Octavia Butler Chapter 5 2  Revising Paradise: Judy Grahn's Ecotopia Mundane's World Chapter 6 3  The Feminist Dystopia of the 1990s: Record of Failure, Midwife of Hope Chapter 7 4   Post-Phallic Culture: Reality Now Resembles Utopian Feminist Science Fiction Part 8 Two: Alternative Cyberpunk: Marge Piercy, Jeff Noon, and Pat Cadigan\t Chapter 9 5  The Biopolitics of Cyberspace: Piercy Hacks Gibson Chapter 10 6  A Crossbreed Lonliness: Jeff Noon's Feminist Cyberpunk Chapter 11 7  Real Lives Complicate Matters in Schrödinger's World: Pat Cadigan's Alternative Cyberpunk Vision Part 12 Three: Sex\/Gender: Eroticizing Cyborgs and Queering Science Fiction\t Chapter 13 8  The Erotics of the (Cy)borg: Authority and Gender in the Sociocultural Imaginary Chapter 14 9  Pin-Up and Cyborg: Exaggerated Gender and Artificial Intelligence Chapter 15 10  (Re)reading Queerly: Science Fiction, Feminism, and the Defamiliarization of Gender Part 16 Four: First Contacts: Re-Reading Jaoanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin and South Africa, and Eleanor Arnason's Other\t Chapter 17 11  Determinate Politics of Indeterminacy: Reading Joanna Russ's Recent Work in Light of her Early Fiction Chapter 18 12  Truth and Story: History in Ursula K. Le Guin's Short Fiction and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Chapter 19 13  Incite\/On Site\/Insight: Implication of the Other in Eleanor Arnason's Science Fiction Part 20 Five: New Female Heroes: Mexican Women and Chicanas, the Star Trek Scientist, and Tank Girl\t Chapter 21 14  Mexican Women and Chicanas Enter Future Fiction Chapter 22 15  The Woman Scientist in Star Trek: Voyager Chapter 23 16  Postfeminism and the Female Action-Adventure Hero: Positioning \"Tank Girl\" Chapter 24 Postscript: A Real Future Female: Dreams, Truth, and Hope Chapter 25 Index Chapter 26 About the Contributors","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038818304343,"sku":"9780847691258","price":113.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780847691258.jpg?v=1750941552","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/future-females-the-next-generation-9780847691258","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}