Girls Making Families: Agential Assemblage in Nnedi Okorafor’s Speculative Fiction
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Publisher:Gävle University Press
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Introduction
Making Babies and Making Home in an All-Female World: Reproduction, Sexuality and Belonging in Nicola Griffith’s Ammonite
Negotiations about Reproduction by Domestic Tables – Space, Gender and Genetic Technology in Ian McDonald’s River of Gods and Ken MacLeod’s Intrusion
Mother Machine: ‘Not the true parent is the woman’s womb’. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Resisting Motherhood: Reproduction in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
Girls Making Families: Agential Assemblage in Nnedi Okorafor’s Speculative Fiction
Humanity in the Grip of Alien Geneticists: Octavia E. Butler’s Lilith’s Brood
“Would You Change Things?”: Natal Choices in Arrival and What Happened to Monday
A Will of One’s Own: Karin Tidbeck’s Short Stories from a Posthumanist Perspective
“Machines Making Machines? How Perverse.” Racism, (White) Sexual Anxiety, the Droids of Star Wars and the Prequel Trilogy
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PDF ISBN: 978-91-89593-07-7 | E-Pub ISBN: 978-91-89593-08-4 | Mobi ISBN: 978-91-89593-09-1 | Hardback ISBN: 978-91-89593-06-0 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.59682/kriterium.52
Publisher: Gävle University Press
Publication date: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 266
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