Sexual Generations: Star Trek: The Next Generation and Gender - Softcover

Roberts, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252068106 ISBN 13: 9780252068102

Verlag: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Boldly going where no one has gone before, Robin Roberts forges intriguing links between feminist politics and theory and the second Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. This lively discussion shows how science fiction's ability to make the familiar strange allows Star Trek to expose and comment on entrenched attitudes toward gender roles and feminist issues. By having aliens or sexually neutral beings enact female dominance or passivity, experience pregnancy or maternity, or suffer rape or abortion, Star Trek provides viewers with a new perspective on these experiences and an antidote to explicit and implicit cultural biases. Roberts maintains that the relevance of Star Trek: The Next Generation to feminist issues accounts as no other factor can for the program's huge following of female fans.
The incisive and innovative readings in Sexual Generations provide food for thought about how the final frontier can clarify pressing questions of our own space and time.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252068106
• ISBN 13: 9780252068102
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande