The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction is the first  large-scale reference work of its kind, critically assessing the  relations of gender and genre in science fiction (SF) especially―but not  exclusively―as explored in speculative art by women and LGBTQ+ artists  across the world.

This global volume builds upon the traditions  of interdisciplinary inquiry by connecting established topics in gender  studies and science fiction studies with emergent ideas from researchers  in different media. Taken together, they challenge conventional generic  boundaries; provide new ways of approaching familiar texts; recover  lost artists and introduce new ones; connect the revival of old,  hate-based politics with the increasing visibility of imagined futures  for all; and show how SF stories about new kinds of gender relations  inspire new models of artistic, technoscientific, and political  practice. Their chapters are grouped into five conversations―about the  history of gender and genre, theoretical frameworks, subjectivities,  medias and transmedialities, and transtemporalities―that are central to  discussions of gender and SF in the current moment. A range of both  emerging and established names in media, literature, and cultural  studies engage with a huge diversity of topics including eco-criticism,  animal studies, cyborg and posthumanist theory, masculinity, critical  race studies, Indigenous futurisms, Black girlhood, and gaming.

This is an essential resource for students and scholars studying gender, sexuality, and/or science fiction.