ISBN:
9783319324708
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XI, 304 p)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
Series Statement:
Studies in Global Science Fiction
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
Keywords:
Literature
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Literature, Modern 20th century
;
Literature, Modern 21st century
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Comparative literature
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Epistemology
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Comparative literature.
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Epistemology.
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Literature, Modern—20th century.
;
Literature, Modern—21st century.
Abstract:
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 contributions to the reconsideration and reformulation of the epistemological models of the world and the individuals in it
Abstract:
Endings(s) -- Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology -- The First Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Plot -- The Second Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Structural Elements -- The Third Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Science -- The Fourth Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Language -- Beginning(s)
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-32470-8
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