Exploring Reproduction and Gender in Contemporary Feminist Speculative Fiction

Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. Dr. Aliaga-Lavrijsen specializes in Transmodern speculative fiction, with special focus on the topic of mothering in Anglophone science fiction.Sara Martín is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Martín specializes in Gender Studies (particularly Masculinities Studies) in speculative fiction, both print and audiovisual, with a special interest in science fiction.

• Chapter 1: Introduction : On Motherhood and Mothering.- Chapter 2 : The Travelling Mother : Naomi Mitchison and Memoirs of a Spacewoman.- Chapter 3 : Prole(tarian) M/others of the Future, Unite : Queer Social Reproduction and Utopian Kinship in the Speculative Fiction by Marge Piercy and, M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi.- Chapter 4 : Domination and Silence: Motherhood in The Handmaid’s Tale and Cadáver Exquisito.- Chapter 5 : Reproductive Processes and Systemic Violence in Three British Science Fiction Novels : The Birth of Love, Intrusion, and The Growing Season.- Chapter 6 : Fairy Tale, Myth, and Reproductive Dystopia: Jane Rogers’s The Testament of Jessie Lamb.- Chapter 7 : Mothering, Family and Survival: The Postapocalyptic World of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam.- Chapter 8 : Re-sculpting the Mother-Daughter Bond and the Idea(l) of the Female Body : A Reading of Madeline Miller’s Galatea.- Chapter 9 : Posthuman Reproductive Futures: The Eco-Queer Kinship of Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu.- Chapter 10 : Monstrous Maternities: Motherhood, Mothering, and Ectogenesis in “MOM” by Nieves Delgado.- Chapter 11 : “Why Do You Look at Me Like That, Mother?”: Motherhood, Abjection, and Entrapment in Vivarium.- Chapter 12 : Mother Yourself: Cloned Women and Paternal Erasure in The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey.- Chapter 13 : Institutionalized Maternal Surveillance: Violence and Resistance in Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers.- Chapter 14 : Natural and Scientific Conception: Motherhood(s) in Louisa Hall’s Reproduction Aline Ferreira.- Chapter 15 : Conclusion: Reimagining Motherhood through Feminist Speculative Futures.