Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction - A Biopsychosocial Approach

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

List of contents

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'"

About the author

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).

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Derek Thiess
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367872021
• ISBN: 978-0-367-87202-1
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Children's Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Social issues & processes, Literary studies: general, Social and ethical issues, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general