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Gender Utopias for a Post-Apocalyptic World

Author : Jorge León Casero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Gender Utopias for a Post-Apocalyptic World written by Jorge León Casero and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception in the 15th century, the modern humanist project developed in the West has always been linked to the utopian writings and imaginaries that have determined the characteristics of the supposed ideal society to be created. The fundamental issue is that all these projects have always emphasized the social hierarchy (class), heteropatriarchy (gender), territorial organization (colonialism and race) and the technical domain of nature (environment), regardless of whether private property of the means of production was defended or criticized. The current prevailing discourse, on the other hand, maintains a completely anti-utopian attitude from two fronts that are divergent in their starting points but convergent in their ultimate consequences. The first, with a greater presence in the environmental and technological field, is characterized by a dogmatic and uncompromising application of the principle of responsibility defined by Hans Jonas. The second, with greater application in socio-economic areas, renews the already old postulate of the "end of history" through an accelerationist-apocalyptic interpretation that identifies the current techno-capitalism with the hopeless collapse of human civilization. This book is based on the consideration that both fronts derive from a unilateral and reductionist notion of utopia, limited to the political-administrative character of public institutions, conceived under the public-private binarism of class defined during the 19th century: liberalism-capitalism vs socialism-communism. Given this position, the contributions collected in this book broaden the sociopolitical consideration of the utopian from an intersectional point of view (gender, race, class, species), identifying (the socio-symbolic organization of) sexuality as the key element from which to propose new utopian projects beyond the (human) binary of gender. With this background in mind, the seven chapters that make up this book have been divided into two non-antagonistic and non-exclusive sections. In the first, Gender Utopias in and against the Modern Project, three historical reflections are found that analyze and rescue some of the first utopian projects with a gender character conceived from a gnosological horizon and with the concepts of modern political theory in an attempt to expand, and make them work against, their heteropatriarchal-colonialist character, or at least evidence, denounce and criticize their insufficiency.

Earth Abides

Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0899683703
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Earth Abides written by George R. Stewart and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Post-Apocalyptic Cultures

Author : Julia Urabayen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031505107
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Post-Apocalyptic Cultures written by Julia Urabayen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond

Author : Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000376354
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond written by Douglas A. Vakoch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught as we are in a grave climate crisis that seems more irreversible with every passing year, our literary portrayals of the future often feature the dystopian collapse of the world as we know it. Science fiction explores how we got here, while pointing toward a more hopeful path forward. From an ecofeminist perspective, a core cause of our current ecological catastrophe is the patriarchal domination of nature, playing out in parallel with the oppression of women. As an alternative to dystopian futures that seem increasingly inevitable, ecofeminist science fiction helps us conjure utopias that promote environmental sustainability based on more egalitarian human relationships. Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction explores the fictional worlds of such canonical novelists as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Joan Slonczewski, as well as those of lesser-known science fiction writers, as they collectively probe humanity’s greatest existential threats. Contributors from five continents provide compelling analyses of far future dystopias on Earth that are all too easy to imagine becoming reality if humankind’s current trajectory continues, as well as provocative insights into science fiction utopias set on idyllic planets orbiting distant stars, which offer liberatory alternatives that might someday be actualized in the real world. By examining the links between the destruction of the environment and the domination of women, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond provides the tools to counteract those intertwined oppressions, helping create a foundation for a truly habitable world.

Into the Forest

Author : Jean Hegland
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0307573567
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Into the Forest written by Jean Hegland and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America. Praise for Into the Forest “[A] beautifully written and often profoundly moving novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A work of extraordinary power, insight and lyricism, Into the Forest is both an urgent warning and a passionate celebration of life and love.”—Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade “From the first page, the sense of crisis and the lucid, honest voice of the . . . narrator pull the reader in. . . . A truly admirable addition to a genre defined by the very high standards of George Orwell's 1984.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Beautifully written.”—Kirkus Reviews “This beautifully written story captures the essential nature of the sister bond: the fierce struggle to be true to one’s own self, only to learn that true strength comes from what they are able to share together.”—Carol Saline, co-author of Sisters “Jean Hegland’s sense of character is firm, warm, and wise. . . . [A] fine first novel.”—John Keeble, author of Yellowfish

The Byworlder

Author : Poul Anderson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109181
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Byworlder written by Poul Anderson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 21st century the world is enjoying an uneasy peace, with a distinct division between the "straight" society and the various fringe groups that go to form the Byworld. Tension grows, however, over the presence of an alien spaceship that is orbiting the world, bearing a single occupant - the Sigman. It appears that no-one knows how to communicate with the Sigman; no-one knows the purpose of his visit. Until two people - one "straight" and the other a Byworlder - solve the problems involved; and in so doing trigger off a series of violent plots and counterplots that mount to a frenetic climax.

Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television

Author : Debbie Olson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666918687
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television written by Debbie Olson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the child’s role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the “rightness” of past systems of social order.

Woman on the Edge of Time

Author : Marge Piercy
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 044900094X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Woman on the Edge of Time written by Marge Piercy and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1997-06-23 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity—and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow. Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time “This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. Whether you are reading Marge Piercy’s great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make.”—Gloria Steinem “An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly “Connie Ramos’s world is cuttingly real.”—Newsweek “Absorbing and exciting.”—The New York Times Book Review

The End of Men

Author : Christina Sweeney-Baird
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593328140
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The End of Men written by Christina Sweeney-Baird and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The End of Men is a fiercely intelligent page-turner, an eerily prescient novel, at once thoughtful and highly emotive." --Paula Hawkins, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and unforgettable debut from a remarkable new talent that asks: what would our world truly look like without men? Only men carry the virus. Only women can save us all. The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland--a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic--and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien--a women's world. What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal with the virus's consequences, told through first-person narratives. Dr. MacLean; Catherine, a social historian determined to document the human stories behind the "male plague"; intelligence analyst Dawn, tasked with helping the government forge a new society; and Elizabeth, one of many scientists desperately working to develop a vaccine. Through these women and others, we see the uncountable ways the absence of men has changed society, from the personal--the loss of husbands and sons--to the political--the changes in the workforce, fertility, and the meaning of family. In The End of Men, Christina Sweeney-Baird turns the unimaginable into the unforgettable.

Gender and the Political

Author : A. Third
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137402768
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Gender and the Political written by A. Third and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing women labeled as terrorists in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gender and the Political examines Western cultural constructions of the female terrorist. The chapters argue that the development of the discourse on terrorism evolves in parallel with, and in response to, radical feminism in the US during this time.

Reload

Author : Mary Flanagan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262561501
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Reload written by Mary Flanagan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of feminist cyberfiction and theoretical and critical writings on gender and technoculture. Most writing on cyberculture is dominated by two almost mutually exclusive visions: the heroic image of the male outlaw hacker and the utopian myth of a gender-free cyberworld. Reload offers an alternative picture of cyberspace as a complex and contradictory place where there is oppression as well as liberation. It shows how cyberpunk's revolutionary claims conceal its ultimate conservatism on matters of class, gender, and race. The cyberfeminists writing here view cyberculture as a social experiment with an as-yet-unfulfilled potential to create new identities, relationships, and cultures. The book brings together women's cyberfiction—fiction that explores the relationship between people and virtual technologies—and feminist theoretical and critical investigations of gender and technoculture. From a variety of viewpoints, the writers consider the effects of rapid and profound technological change on culture, in particular both the revolutionary and reactionary effects of cyberculture on women's lives. They also explore the feminist implications of the cyborg, a human-machine hybrid. The writers challenge the conceptual and institutional rifts between high and low culture, which are embedded in the texts and artifacts of cyberculture.

The Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia

Author : Katarzyna Ostalska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000509966
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia written by Katarzyna Ostalska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film, and art, working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a wider, global, epistemological, critical background. The international, diverse contributions, including a Foreword by Gregory Claeys, draw upon posthumanism, speculative realism, speculative feminism, object-oriented ontology, new materialisms, and post-Anthropocene studies to propose alternative perspectives on gender, environment, as well as alternate futures and pasts rendered in fiction. Instead of binary divisions into utopia vs dystopia, the collection explores genres transcending this dichotomy, scrutinising the oeuvre of both established and emerging writers, directors, and critics. This is a rich and unique collection suitable for scholars and students studying feminist literature, media cultural studies, and women’s and gender studies.

After the Apocalypse

Author : Srećko Horvat
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509540091
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book After the Apocalypse written by Srećko Horvat and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this post-apocalyptic rollercoaster ride, philosopher Srećko Horvat invites us to explore the Apocalypse in terms of ‘revelation’ (rather than as the ‘end’ itself). He argues that the only way to prevent the end – i.e., extinction – is to engage in a close reading of various interconnected threats, such as climate crisis, the nuclear age and the ongoing pandemic. Drawing on the work of neglected philosopher Günther Anders, this book outlines a philosophical approach to deal with what Horvat, borrowing a term from climate science and giving it a theological twist, calls ‘eschatological tipping points’. These are no longer just the nuclear age or climate crisis, but their collision, conjoined with various other major threats – not only pandemics, but also the viruses of capitalism and fascism. In his investigation of the future of places such as Chernobyl, the Mediterranean and the Marshall Islands, as well as many others affected by COVID-19, Horvat contends that the ‘revelation’ appears simple and unprecedented: the alternatives are no longer socialism or barbarism – our only alternatives today are a radical reinvention of the world, or mass extinction. After the Apocalypse is an urgent call not only to mourn tomorrow’s dead today but to struggle for our future while we can.

Decoding Gender in Science Fiction

Author : Brian Attebery
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317971477
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Decoding Gender in Science Fiction written by Brian Attebery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Frankenstein to futuristic feminist utopias, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction examines the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored, and revised conventional notions of sexual difference. Attebery traces a fascinating history of men's and women's writing that covertly or overtly investigates conceptions of gender, suggesting new perspectives on the genre.

The Science Fiction Handbook

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444310351
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Science Fiction Handbook written by M. Keith Booker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fiction Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences Writers and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; George Orwell; Ursula K. Le Guin; The War of the Worlds (1898); Starship Troopers (1959); Mars Trilogy (1993-6); and many more A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook

Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract

Author : Claire P. Curtis
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739142054
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract written by Claire P. Curtis and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-07-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: "We'll Not Go Home Again" provides a framework for our fascination with the apocalyptic events. The popular appeal of the end of the world genre is clear in movies, novels, and television shows. Even our political debates over global warming, nuclear threats, and pandemic disease reflect a concern about the possibility of such events. This popular fascination is really a fascination with survival: how can we come out alive? And what would we do next? The end of the world is not about species death, but about beginning again. This book uses postapocalyptic fiction as a terrain for thinking about the state of nature: the hypothetical fiction that is the driving force behind the social contract. The first half of the book examines novels that tell the story of the move from the state of nature to civil society through a Hobbesian, a Lockean, or a Rousseauian lens, including Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, Malevil by Robert Merle, and Into the Forest by Jean Hegland. The latter half of the book examines Octavia Butler's postapocalyptic Parable series in which a new kind of social contract emerges, one built on the fact of human dependence and vulnerability.

The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction

Author : Emily Cox-Palmer-White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000329704
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction written by Emily Cox-Palmer-White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning essentialist forms of feminist discourse, this work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist and gender theorists, such as Judith Butler and Donna Haraway, and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze. By analysing representations of the female cyborg figure, the gynoid, in science fiction literature, television, film and videogames, the work acknowledges its normative and subversive properties while also calling for a new feminist politics of selfhood and autonomy implied by the posthuman qualities of the female machine.