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Sexuality, maternity, and (re)productive futures : women's speculative fiction in contemporary Japan /

"Contemporary Japanese female speculative fiction writers of novels and manga employ the perspectives of aliens, cyborgs, and bioengineered entities to critique the social realities of women, particularly with respect to reproduction, which they also re-imagine in radical ways. Harada examines...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harada, Kazue (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.
Colección:Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 70.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures: Women's Speculative Fiction in Contemporary Japan
  • Chapter 1. Imaginaries Beyond X/Y: The Desire for Biological Diversity and the (Re)productive Burden
  • Chapter 2. Playing with (Re)productive Process and Time: Cyborg Gender Panic and Simulacra of the Daughter-Mother Continuum
  • Chapter 3. The Re-engineered Heterosexual Family and Engineered Sexless (Re)productive Kinships
  • Chapter 4. Defamiliarizing Wombs and Imagining New Surrogacy in the Colonial State
  • Chapter 5. Queer Family and Queer Futurity: No Future for Humanity?
  • Conclusion. The Future of the Present and the Future of the Past in Japanese Speculative and Science Fiction
  • Bibliography
  • Index.