The sex is out of this world : essays on the carnal side of science fiction / edited by Sherry Ginn and Michael G. Cornelius.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2012.
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x, 249 p. ; 23 cm.

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"This book is a collection of new essays, with the general objective of filling a gap in the literature about sex and science fiction. The essays explore the myriad ways in which authors writing in the genre, regardless of format (e.g., print, film, television, etc.), envision very different beings expressing this most fundamental of human behaviors"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Introduction: sexing science fiction / Michael G. Cornelius
  • The future, in bed with the past: miscegenation in science fiction film and television / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
  • Alienating sex: the discourse of sexuality in the works of Octavia Butler / Anca Rosu
  • "We pair off! One man, one woman': the heterosexual imperative in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy / Echo E. Savage
  • Love at first contact: sex, race and colonial fantasy in Star trek: first contact / Allison Whitney
  • "They teach you that in whore academy?" A quantitative examination of sex and sex workers in Joss Whedon's Firefly and dollhouse / Heather M. Porter
  • The evil wet nurse: preoedipal dvelopment and Primo Levi's science fiction / Robert C. Pirro
  • Patriarchy, paternity and papas: reproductive technologies and parenthood in science fiction / Erin Grayson Sapp
  • "I have worked hard at her head and brain": Dr. Moreau and the new woman / Thomas G. Cole II
  • "Are we not men?" Degeneration, future-sex and The time machine / Larry T. Shillock
  • Space apes want our women! Primate lust in American science fiction / Matthew H. Hersch
  • Technology as a nexus for homoerotic desire in boys' series books / Michael G. Cornelius
  • (Inter)Mediated sexuality in the science fiction of J. G. Ballard / Clare Parody
  • Human, alien, techno
  • what next? Evolutionary psychology, science fiction and sex / Sherry Ginn
  • Conclusion: sexing science fiction, take two / Sherry Ginn.
Other title(s)
Carnal side of science fiction
ISBN
  • 9780786466856 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • 0786466855 (softcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2012038704
OCLC
813567996
RCP
H - S
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