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This book examines how scientific, popular, scholarly, and artistic
imaginations of outer space have, since the 1950s, reflected and
embedded Earthly hopes, anxieties, and futures. Rather than simply
a platform for imagining the future, this book sees outer space as
a material reality that reflexively encodes humans’
self-perceptions of their planet and beyond. Employing a global
approach to feminist theory, Space Feminisms cultivates radical and
alternative modes of inquiry around outer space. It contains essays
from leading scholars working across the space sciences, art, and
anthropology, artworks and texts by contemporary artists working in
the field of space art, and interviews with NASA astronauts past
and present. In doing so, it draws new connections between feminist
thought and extraterrestrial power structures, as it inspects the
transformation of terrestrially held notions of gender, race, and
class as they migrate to the extraterrestrial. In doing so, this
book makes a radical enquiry into how earthly power structures are
already expanding into and colonising our skies, facilitating a
collaborative and interdisciplinary platform for scholars, artists,
and designers to imagine radical constructions of human futures
beyond Earth. At the intersection of scientific, cultural, social,
and artistic speculations, Space Feminisms gathers leading
scholars, scientists, artists, and designers to develop innovative
tactics and disruptive participations to create generative,
alternative, and careful futures of and in outer space.
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