Women's Space

Melanie A. Marotta is a lecturer in the Department of English and Language Arts at Morgan State University and an editor for the Journal of Science Fiction. Her research focuses on science fiction, young adult literature, the American West, contemporary American literature (in particular African American), and ecocriticism. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionWhere Are We Going and Whence Have We Come? (Melanie A. Marotta)Mara Jade, Frontier Woman: Agency in Star Wars and Influencing the Transmedia Franchise (Monica Louzon)The Reformation of the “Plastic Girl”: Prostitute/Killer and Messenger Characters in Cyberpunk to Post-Cyberpunk (Melanie A. Marotta)“Shut up and get over here”: Lovers and Cattle in Mass Effect (Adam Crowley)Olivia Dunham and the New Frontier in Fringe (Teresa Forde)A Fistful of Gender: Power and the Body in Text-Based Trans-Femme SF Western Video Games (Joshua King)Wanheda, Commander of Death, Healer: Hybrid Female Identities in the Post-Apocalyptic Wars of The 100 (Lindsey Mantoan)The Most Dangerous Woman in the Universe: Redefining Gamora as a Female Native American in Guardians of the Galaxy (Brett H. Butler)Accidents of Occidentalism: Women, Science Fiction and Westerliness in Becky Chambers and Nnedi Okorafor (Laurie Ringer)If He Can Break It In, She Can Break It Out: The Public Impact of Domestic Machines in Elizabeth Bear’s Karen Memory (Selena Middleton)A Host of Questions: Women’s Artificial Agency in Westworld (Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo)Triggered: The Post-Traumatic Woman and Narratology in HBO’s Westworld (Keith Clavin and Christopher J. La Casse)About the ContributorsIndex