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In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged
as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking
research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the
field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy,
history, and literature, while early works in the area of humor
studies initially concentrated on language, linguistics, and
psychology. Since then, both fields have flourished, but largely
independently. This book draws together and focuses the work of
scholars from diverse disciplines on intersections of gender and
humor, giving voice to approaches in disciplines such as film,
television, literature, linguistics, translation studies, and
popular culture.
Dark Horizons presents new essays on the "dystopian turn" of late twentieth-century science fiction. Leading scholars discuss major dystopian traditions including cyberpunk and feminist utopian/dystopian narratives as seen in works such as Octavia Butler's novel Xenogenesis and the film Fight Club. These essays draw out the ways in which contemporary science fiction literature and film has served as a prophetic vehicle for writers with ethical and political concerns.
Dark Horizons presents new essays on the "dystopian turn" of late twentieth-century science fiction. Leading scholars discuss major dystopian traditions including cyberpunk and feminist utopian/dystopian narratives as seen in works such as Octavia Butler's novel Xenogenesis and the film Fight Club. These essays draw out the ways in which contemporary science fiction literature and film has served as a prophetic vehicle for writers with ethical and political concerns.
In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged
as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking
research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the
field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy,
history, and literature, while early works in the area of humor
studies initially concentrated on language, linguistics, and
psychology. Since then, both fields have flourished, but largely
independently. This book draws together and focuses the work of
scholars from diverse disciplines on intersections of gender and
humor, giving voice to approaches in disciplines such as film,
television, literature, linguistics, translation studies, and
popular culture.
Almost 20 years after the publication of Future Females: A Critical
Anthology, feminist science fiction pioneer Marleen S. Barr,
together with a talented crew of the field's established and
emerging theorists, reveal new critical insights in Future Females,
the Next Generation. This groundbreaking collection includes
contributors from across the globe who find effective venues for
imagining feminist thought experiments. A multinational perspective
runs through this innovative volume, focusing on the latest dynamic
trends in feminist science fiction. These include such issues as
race, gender, cyberfeminism, the media, and new writers in the
field. Future Females, the Next Generation, which establishes the
generational continuity characterizing a vibrant area of feminist
literary and cultural inquiry, boldly goes where no feminist
science fiction critical anthology has gone before.
In 2014, when Lucy Sargisson was promoted to professor in the
School of Politics and International Relations, at the University
of Nottingham, she became the first and, so far, only, professor of
utopian studies. This choice symbolized the centrality of
utopianism to her life, thought, and educational practice. In three
books, each in their own way groundbreaking, a fourth book
co-authored by one of us, and in important articles, her work falls
into four primary areas: political theory, feminism,
environmentalism, and intentional communities, with much of her
work intersecting two, three, or even all four. And in all her
work, she brings the lens of utopianism to bear on the subject and,
in doing so, illuminates both utopianism and the subject at hand.
The volume honors Sargisson's contributions to the field of utopian
studies, with contributions by Ibtisam Ahmed, Raffaella Baccolini,
David M. Bell, Suryamayi Clarence-Smith, Chris Coates, Elena
Colombo, Davina Cooper, Rhiannon Firth, Ruth Levitas, Sarah
Lohmann, Almudena Machado-Jimenez, Dunja M. Mohr, Tom Moylan, Robyn
Muir, Jose Reis, Lyman Tower Sargent, Lucy Sargisson, Simon
Spiegel, Maria Varsam, and Laura Winter.
Informed by feminist, Marxist, ethnographic, and post-structuralist
frameworks, Utopia Method Vision makes a unique contribution to
international debates in cultural, literary, sociological, and
political studies of utopian theory, texts, and practices. The
collection addresses the ways in which the contributors approach
their study of the objects and practices of utopianism (understood
as social anticipations and visions produced through texts and
social experiments) and of how, in turn, those objects and
practices have shaped their intellectual work in general and their
research perspectives in particular. In so doing, the contributors
develop a larger, self-critical look at the limits and potential of
the entire paradigm by which utopianism is known, studied,
critiqued, created, and received.
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