Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction Utopias and Dystopias

Name: Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction Utopias and Dystopias
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ISBN: 9781591024149

ISBN-10: 1591024145

ISBN-13: 9781591024149

Edition: 2006

Authors: Judith A. Little

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Using selections from such noted writers as Margaret Atwood, James Tiptree, Jr. and Ursula K. Le Guin, this collection shows how the imagined worlds of science fiction create hold experiments for testing feminist hypotheses and for interpreting philosophical questions about humanity, gender, equality and more.

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 7/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.63" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Human Nature and Reality


Introduction



What Does It Mean to Be Human?


No Woman Born




What Are Women and Men Really Like?


Survival Ship



Abominable



Adam Marko's Journal; Male Compensation Theory from The Y Chromosome



The Elizabeth Complex




How Significant Is the Reproductive Difference?


Bloodchild




The Concepts of "Woman" and "Nature"


Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand



His Vegetable Wife




Why Is Language Important?


Speech Sounds




Dystopias and Utopias


Introduction



Dystopias: The Worst of All Possible Worlds


The Possible Present


For the Sake of Grace



Pairpuppets



Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!



Far in the Future


Wives



Fears



"Jael's World" from the Female Man




Separatist Utopias: Worlds of Difference


Why Separate?


"Daya Tells a Tale" from the furies



"The Worlds of Jeannine and Joanna" from the Female Man



All-Female Societies and Planets


"Oath of the Free Amazons" from the Shattered Chain



Janet's World from the Female Man



When It Changed




Androgynous Utopias: Worlds of Equality


X: A Fabulous Child's Story



Interlocking Pieces



Options



Recommended Readings


Index