Feminist science fiction pioneer Marleen S. Barr, together with a talented crew of the fields established and emerging theorists, reveal new critical insights in Future Females, the Next Generation. This groundbreaking collection includes contributors from across the globe who find effective venues for imagining feminist thought experiments. A multinational perspective runs through this innovative volume, focusing on the latest dynamic trends in feminist science fiction, such as race, gender, cyberfeminism, the media, and new writers in the field.
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction, "Everythings Coming Up Roses": Or, Mainstream Feminist Science Fiction, the Uncola Part 3 One: Utopia and Dystopia: A New Genre, Ecotopia, and the 1990s 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 Grahns Ecotopia Mundanes 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 Chapter 9 5 The Biopolitics of Cyberspace: Piercy Hacks Gibson Chapter 10 6 A Crossbreed Lonliness: Jeff Noons Feminist Cyberpunk Chapter 11 7 Real Lives Complicate Matters in Schrodingers World: Pat Cadigans Alternative Cyberpunk Vision Part 12 Three: Sex/Gender: Eroticizing Cyborgs and Queering Science Fiction 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 Arnasons Other Chapter 17 11 Determinate Politics of Indeterminacy: Reading Joanna Russs Recent Work in Light of her Early Fiction Chapter 18 12 Truth and Story: History in Ursula K. Le Guins Short Fiction and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Chapter 19 13 Incite/On Site/Insight: Implication of the Other in Eleanor Arnasons Science Fiction Part 20 Five: New Female Heroes: Mexican Women and Chicanas, the Star Trek Scientist, and Tank Girl 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