Overview

""Science fiction"" can be translated into ""real unreality."" More than a genre like fantasy, which creates entirely new realms of possibility, science fiction constructs its possibilities from what is real, from what is, indeed, possible, or conceivably so. This collection, then, looks to understand and explore the ""unreal reality,"" to note ways in which our culture's continually changing and evolving mores of sex and sexuality are reflected in, dissected by, and deconstructed through the genre of science fiction. This book is a collection of new essays, with the general objective of filling a gap in the literature about sex and science fiction (although some work has gone before, none of it is recent). The essays herein explore the myriad ways in which authors--regardless of format (print, film, television, etc.)--envision very different beings expressing this most fundamental of human behaviors.

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Author:   Sherry Ginn ,  Michael G. Cornelius ,  Donald E. Palumbo ,  C.W Sullivan III
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Volume:   36
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9780786466856

ISBN 10:   0786466855
Pages:   259
Publication Date:   15 November 2012
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgements      viii Introduction: Sexing Science Fiction MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS      PART ONE : ALIEN The Future, in Bed with the Past: Miscegenation in Science Fiction Film and Television CYNTHIA J. MILLER and A. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER      Alienating Sex: The Discourse of Sexuality in the Works of Octavia Butler ANCA ROSU      “We pair off ! One man, one woman”: The Heterosexual Imperative in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy ECHO E. SAVAGE      Love at First Contact: Sex, Race and Colonial Fantasy in Star Trek: First Contact ALLISON WHITNEY      “They teach you that in Whore Academy?” A Quantitative Examination of Sex and Sex Workers in Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Dollhouse HEATHER M. PORTER      The Evil Wet Nurse: Preoedipal Development and Primo Levi’s Science Fiction ROBERT C. PIRRO      PART TWO : TECHNO Patriarchy, Paternity and Papas: Reproductive Technologies and Parenthood in Science Fiction ERIN GRAYSON SAPP      “I have worked hard at her head and brain”: Dr. Moreau and the New Woman THOMAS G. COLE II      “Are we not men?” Degeneration, Future-Sex and The Time Machine LARRY T. SHILLOCK      Space Apes Want Our Women! Primate Lust in American Science Fiction MATTHEW H. HERSCH      Technology as a Nexus for Homoerotic Desire in Boys’ Series Books MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS      (Inter)Mediated Sexuality in the Science Fiction of J. G. Ballard CLARE PARODY      Human, Alien, Techno—What Next? Evolutionary Psychology, Science Fiction and SHERRY GINN      Conclusion: Sexing Science Fiction, Take Two SHERRY GINN      About the Contributors      Index     

Reviews

Essays are incisive and well-written...recommended for most college libraries --Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts; This collection of over a dozen essays interrogates how sex and sexuality are reflected in science fiction as changing categories and persistent motifs --Reference & Research Book News.

“Essays are incisive and well-written...recommended for most college libraries”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts; “This collection of over a dozen essays interrogates how sex and sexuality are reflected in science fiction as changing categories and persistent motifs”—Reference & Research Book News.

Author Information

Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe. Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works.

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