Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction

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Cover Endorsement Page Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1 Climate Change and Future Earth Dystopias Chapter 1 An Ecofeminist Reading of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of Talents Chapter 2 An Ecofeminist Treatment of Nourishment and Feeding in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy Chapter 3 Margaret Atwood’s Ecodystopic SF: Approaching Ethics, Gender, and Ecology1 Chapter 4 Ecofeminist (Post) Ice-Age Ecotopia: Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann Books Chapter 5 Ecofeminist Climate Fiction: Merlinda Bobis’s Locust Girl Part 2 Utopias on Earth and Beyond Chapter 6 “Extinction is Forever”: Ecofeminism and Apocalypse in Louise Lawrence’s Young Adult Short Fiction Chapter 7 Ecofeminist Utopian Speculations in Henrietta Dugdale’s A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age (1883); Catherine Helen Spence’s A Week in the Future (1888); Mary Anne Moore-Bentley’s A Woman of Mars; Or, Australia’s Enfranchised Woman (1901); and Joyce Vi Chapter 8 Alien Ecofeminist Societies: “Sharers” in Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean Chapter 9 Re-reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s SF: The Daoist Yin Principle in Ecofeminist Novels Chapter 10 Keeping Grows; Giving Flows: Reciprocal Relations and the Gift of Always Coming Home Chapter 11 “The Revolt of the Mother”: Romanticizing Nature and Rejecting Science in Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground and Other Feminist Utopias Index