Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 Climate Change and Future Earth Dystopias
Chapter 1 An Ecofeminist Reading of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of Talents
Chapter 2 An Ecofeminist Treatment of Nourishment and Feeding in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy
Chapter 3 Margaret Atwood’s Ecodystopic SF: Approaching Ethics, Gender, and Ecology1
Chapter 4 Ecofeminist (Post) Ice-Age Ecotopia: Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann Books
Chapter 5 Ecofeminist Climate Fiction: Merlinda Bobis’s Locust Girl
Part 2 Utopias on Earth and Beyond
Chapter 6 “Extinction is Forever”: Ecofeminism and Apocalypse in Louise Lawrence’s Young Adult Short Fiction
Chapter 7 Ecofeminist Utopian Speculations in Henrietta Dugdale’s A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age (1883); Catherine Helen Spence’s A Week in the Future (1888); Mary Anne Moore-Bentley’s A Woman of Mars; Or, Australia’s Enfranchised Woman (1901); and Joyce Vi
Chapter 8 Alien Ecofeminist Societies: “Sharers” in Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean
Chapter 9 Re-reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s SF: The Daoist Yin Principle in Ecofeminist Novels
Chapter 10 Keeping Grows; Giving Flows: Reciprocal Relations and the Gift of Always Coming Home
Chapter 11 “The Revolt of the Mother”: Romanticizing Nature and Rejecting Science in Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground and Other Feminist Utopias
Index