Full Description
Feminist Science Fiction's Sartorial Spaces is a collection of critical essays consisting of established critical voices and cutting-edge new generation fresh perspectives across feminist theory, science fiction, and fashion. This book brings science fiction to bear upon the limiting impact clothing still has upon women. Science fiction literature can envision how yet-to-be-designed clothes can unequivocally signal female power and this volume argues that it is time to turn to science fiction to lead the way in making empowering female attire real. This book is for scholars and students who are interested in the interplay between fashion and science fiction.
Contents
Preface
What Donna Haraway's Cyborg Wears
Donna Haraway
Introduction
"Have Space Suit--Will Travel": A Manifesto for the Potential Real World Impact of Intergalactic Garb
Marleen S. Barr
Chapter One
Dressed for Dystopia: The Appropriation of Margaret Atwood's Handmaids' Robes
Raffaella Baccolini
Chapter Two
Workwear, Armor, Voice: Feminist Embodiment and the Politics of Sartorial Worldmaking in Joanna Russ' Fiction
Jeanne Cortiel
Chapter Three
Learning to Fly: Wings, Fashion, and Posthuman Identity
Elana Gomel
Chapter Four
Japanese Cosplay as a Science Fiction Fashion System: Historical Notes on Transpacific Gender Politics
Mari Kotani
Chapter Five
Fashion Plates: Changing Depictions of Fashion in Connie Willis' Bellwether, Justina Robson's Keeping It Real, and Martha Wells' All Systems Red and Artificial Condition
Sylvia Kelso
Chapter Six
The Fashion of Power and the Power of Fashion: Dress and Empire in
Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire
Anastasia Klimchynskaya
Chapter Seven
Sartorial Second Skin and Mundane Attire: Fashioning Identity in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and Dawn
Kamil Naicker
Chapter Eight
Feminist Refashioning in Xiran Jay Zhao's Iron Widow
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Chapter Nine
Science Fiction/Clothing/Reality Or "Putting the 'Ass' in 'Astronaut'" Is a Definite Feminist Fashion No No
Marleen S. Barr
Afterword
Astronaut Barbie
Constance Penley
