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Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology: Four Modes
Ritch Calvin
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Description for Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology: Four Modes
Hardback. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HPK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
This book argues that feminist science fiction shares the same concerns as feminist epistemology-challenges to the sex of the knower, the valuation of the abstract over the concrete, the dismissal of the physical, the focus on rationality and reason, the devaluation of embodied knowledge, and the containment of (some) bodies. Ritch Calvin argues that feminist science fiction asks questions of epistemology because those questions are central to making claims of subjectivity and identity. Calvin reveals how women, who have historically been marginal to the deliberations of philosophy and science, have made significant ... Read more
This book argues that feminist science fiction shares the same concerns as feminist epistemology-challenges to the sex of the knower, the valuation of the abstract over the concrete, the dismissal of the physical, the focus on rationality and reason, the devaluation of embodied knowledge, and the containment of (some) bodies. Ritch Calvin argues that feminist science fiction asks questions of epistemology because those questions are central to making claims of subjectivity and identity. Calvin reveals how women, who have historically been marginal to the deliberations of philosophy and science, have made significant ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319324692
SKU
V9783319324692
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Ref
99-15
About Ritch Calvin
Ritch Calvin is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at SUNY, Stony Brook, USA. He is the editor of Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity, the co-editor of SF 101: An Introduction to Science Fiction, and has published work in Extrapolation, Femspec, Science Fiction Film and Television, Science Fiction Studies, ... Read more
Reviews for Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology: Four Modes
Ritch Calvin's Feminist Science Fiction is a clear, solidly argued, and original approach to the genre. ... The book's very consistent and clear structure is one of its strengths ... . Calvin's is a fresh reading of a familiar novel. (Brian Attebery, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 44, 2017)