Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction

Sherryl Vint is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She has published widely on speculative fiction, including Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction (2021) and the edited collection After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century (2020). Sümeyra Buran is an Associate Professor of English at Istanbul Medeniyet University (IMU), Turkey and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She is the founding and coordinating editor of Journal of Posthumanism, editor of the collection Edebiyatta Posthümanizm (2020) and editor of the Posthumanism Series for Transnational Press London.

• 1. Introduction: Sociotechnical Design and the Future of Gender.- Part I Reproductive Technologies.- 2. Ectogenesis on the NHS: Reproduction and Privatization in Twenty-first-Century British Science Fiction.- 3. Being an Artificial Womb Machine-Human.- 4. Environmental Sterilization through Reproductive Sterilization in Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army.- 5. Groomed for Survival – Queer Reproductive Technologies and Cross-Species Assemblages in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu.- Part II Reimagining the Woman.- 6. A Housewife’s Dream? Automation and the Problem of Women’s Free Time.- 7. Motherhood Beyond Woman: I Am [a Good] Mother and Predecessors Onscreen.- 8. Gender and Reproduction in the Dystopian Works of Sayaka Murata.- 9. Cyborg Separatism: Feminist Utopia in Athena’s Choice.- Part III Queering Gender.- 10. Drowning in the Cloud: Water, the Digital and the Queer Potential of Feminist Science Fiction.- 11. Making the Multiple: Gender and the Technologies of Multiplicity in Cyberpunk Science Fiction.- 12. Lesbian Cyborgs and the Blueprints for Liberation.- Part IV Posthuman Females.- 13. Becoming Woman: Healing and Posthuman Subjectivity in Garland’s Ex Machina.- 14. Female Ageing and Technological Reproduction. Feminist Transhuman Embodiments in Jasper Fforde’s The Woman Who Died A Lot.- 15. ‘Growgirls’ and Cultured Eggs: Food Futures, and Feminism in SF from the Global South.- 16. Reproductive Futurism, Indigenous Futurism, and the (Non)Human to Come in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God.

“This innovative and important collection will be useful to scholars of sf literature and film, as well as to those particularly interested in the analysis of potentially liberatory or oppressive effects of current and developing technologies. … This book is an extremely useful and timely intervention and the editors succeed in their announced goal … .” (Sara Hosey, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 50, 2023)