Feminist science fiction art
Smith, Smin (2022) Feminist science fiction art. In: The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction. Routledge. ISBN 9780367537012 (In Press)
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Feminist science fiction is a category most frequently associated with literature, film, and television. This chapter challenges these associations, theorizing SF art as a space for queer / trans / feminist resistance. Specifically, SF artworks by Sophia Al-Maria, Sin Wai Kin, Tai Shani, and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley are read as feminist theory––a method drawn from speculative and repro-utopian feminisms––which seeks to locate theoretical knowledge both within and beyond academic writing. Subsequently feminist SF artworks are contextualised within wider feminist and/or science fiction traditions, communities, and discourses. Feminist SF art is framed then not as a genre populated by individual auteurs, but as a community of artists engaged in co-authorship. This chapter focusses specifically on artists working with collaborative worldbuilding, a range of artistic strategies which further embed co-authorship and recursivity into SF art production.
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