1st Edition

The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s Science Fiction An Experience of the Impossible

By Eleanor Drage Copyright 2024
316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s Science Fiction argues that utopian science fiction written by European women has, since the seventeenth century, played an important role in exploring the racial and gender possibilities of the outer limits of the humanist imagination. This book focuses on six works of science fiction from the UK, France, Spain, and Italy: Jennifer Marie Brissett’s... Read more

Introduction and Roadmap

Chapter 1: Towards New Forms of Humanism

Chapter 2: Contextualising the History of SF

Chapter 3: Re-historicising the Future: Re-contextualising Systems of Race and Gender in Women’s SF

Chapter 4: Embodying New Forms of Humanism: The Fate of Race and Gender in Queer Assemblages

Chapter 5: Pregnancy, by Mistake: Transgressing Race and Gender Through Queered Extraterrestrial Fertility

Chapter 6: Non-Reproductive Planetary Communities: Race, Gender, Kinship, and Forgetting to Conform

Chapter 7: At the Borders of the Planetary

Chapter 8: Conclusion. New Forms of Humanism

Summaries of Primary SF Texts.

Index

Biography

Eleanor Drage is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, where she applies feminism and anti- racism to the ethics of artificial intelligence.