Essays about: "feminist science fiction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words feminist science fiction.

  1. 1. What Would The Doctor Do (WWTDD)? : Dialogues with Feminist Whovians: Exploring Feminist Inspirational Potential in Doctor Who

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Marie Jaquemin; [2022]
    Keywords : Feminist Inspirational Potential; fandom; agency; emotions; values; role models; inspirations;

    Abstract : What Would The Doctor Do?  This is a question at the heart of the famous BBC science-fiction show Doctor Who led by the eponym character: the Doctor. As a fan of the show myself, a Whovian, this question matters to me as I look up to the Doctor, this hero who is described as an alien ethical guide for their human companions. READ MORE

  3. 2. ‘The Gaps Between Stories’ : Examining the Gray Area of Sexual Consent in The Handmaid’s Tale

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Paulina Sundqvist; [2022]
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    Abstract : This project’s aim was to examine how the institutionalization of rape and sexual violence becomes problematic if analyzed through the conceptual lens of consent and complicity. After this close reading of consent and sexual violence, the answers are still not clear or easily discerned. READ MORE

  4. 3. Ambivalent encounters : A feminist exploration of human and feminised AI humanoid relations

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Sara Margret Sigurdardottir; [2022]
    Keywords : Artificial intelligence; robot embodiment; Klara and the Sun; artist robot; sex robots; affect; human-machine relations;

    Abstract : Machines encoded with artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly having influence in human social realms. Rapid technological advances have propelled encounters between humans and embodied AI humanoids from a subject of science fiction to a real-world phenomenon. READ MORE

  5. 4. HETERONORMATIVITY OF THE AMBISEXUAL. A Queer Reading of the Science Fiction Novel The Left Hand of Darkness

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Andrea Blomsterberg; [2018-06-13]
    Keywords : engelska; Ursula K. Le Guin; science fiction; The Left Hand of Darkness; queer theory; heteronormativity; Judith Butler; sexuality; thought experiment; queer;

    Abstract : The utopian genre exists predominantly in science fiction and has in the twentieth century been extensively explored in feminist literature. Ursula K. Le Guin is considered one of the leading authors in this genre and has created numerous thought experiments concerned with gender construction and its problematics. READ MORE

  6. 5. "Humanity is Unnatural!" Feminisms and Science-Fiction Strategies in Joanna Russ’s The Female Man and The Adventures of Alyx

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Lauri Lahtinen; [2018]
    Keywords : Joanna Russ; Science fiction; Feminism; The Female Man; The Adventures of Alyx;

    Abstract : While acknowledging that Russ’s work is problematic in some regards, the aim of this thesis is to counter the criticism of Russ’s oeuvre as outdated and sometimes stuck in second-wave feminist positions, instead demonstrating how Russ’s use of sci-fi strategies such as cyborgism, possible-worlds theory, utopianism, and concretised metaphors in The Female Man and The Adventures of Alyx enables her to move beyond second-wave feminist positions and anticipate third-wave feminism in ways that are still relevant today. . READ MORE