Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction: A Biopsychosocial Approach

ISBN-13: 9780367872021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 162 str.

Derek Thiess

Opis

Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that considering aged bodies changes the way we read both age and science fiction. It employs contemporary clinical psychology, the biopsychosocial model, to provide a method to consider age (and gender) as an e

Spis treści

Foreword Arial S. Treankler  Introduction  1. Science Fiction and the Abjection of Age  2. Bad Girls (with Older Men): Differently Aged Relationships in the Twilight Series  3. Care Work, Age, and Culture in SF  4. The End of Games: Sport, Anger, and Young Masculinity in SF  5. Age in the Machine: Aged Bodies in Cyberpunk  Conclusions: "No power in the 'verse can stop me'"

O autorze

Derek J. Thiess, Ph.D. is a Tutor at the University of Georgia, USA. He has published in journals such as Femspec and Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and is also the author of Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader (2014).