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Not without my body : feminist science fiction and embodied futures
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dc.contributor.advisor | Plain, Gill | |
dc.contributor.author | James, Sarah J. | |
dc.coverage.spatial | iv, 242 p. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-26T13:10:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-06-26T13:10:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/14613 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study explores the interaction between feminist science fiction and feminist theory, focusing on the body and embodiment. Specifically, it aims to demonstrate that feminist science fiction novels of the 1990s offer an excellent platform for exploring the critical theories of the body put forward by Judith Butler in particular, and other feminist/queer theorists in general. The thesis opens with a brief history of science fiction's depiction of the body and feminist science fiction's subversions and rewritings of this, as well as an overview of Judith Butler's theories relating to the body and embodiment. It then considers a wide range of feminist science fiction novels from the 1990s, focusing on four key areas; bodies materialised outside patriarchal systems in women-only or women-ruled worlds, alien bodies, cyborg bodies and bodies in cyberspace. An in-depth analysis of the selected texts reveals that they have important contributions to make to the consideration of bodies as they develop and expand the issues raised by theorists such as Butler, Elisabeth Grosz, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of St Andrews | |
dc.subject.lcc | PN3433.6J2 | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Science fiction--Women authors--History and criticism | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Feminist fiction--History and criticism | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Gender identity in literature | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Sex role in literature | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Body, Human, in literature | en |
dc.title | Not without my body : feminist science fiction and embodied futures | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationname | PhD Doctor of Philosophy | en_US |
dc.publisher.institution | The University of St Andrews | en_US |
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