Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway’s influential “Cyborg Manifesto” was published. With sections exploring reproductive technologies, new ways of imagining femininity and motherhood via artificial means, queer readings of gender as a social technology, and posthuman visions of a world beyond gender, this book demonstrates how feminist speculative fiction offers an urgently needed response to the intersections of women’s bodies and technology. This collection brings together authors from Europe, Japan, the US and the UK to consider speculative films and texts, reproductive technologies and food futures, and opportunities to rethink family, aging, gender and sexuality, and community through feminist speculative fiction, a social technology for building better futures.

“This is a significant feminist intervention into the many ways in which the lives of women are being impacted across the world by the increasingly intimate technological productions of neoliberal hypercapitalist biopower. Contributors from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the US offer informed and informative readings of a diverse range of speculative fictions across media. In this context, speculative fiction works to defamiliarize a future-present of pervasive automation, increasingly sophisticated assistive reproductive technologies, developments in future-food technologies, robotics and artificial intelligence, bioengineering, and genetic science. Contributors also suggest sites of potential resistance through hybrid figures such as the cyborg, the queer, and the posthuman, and through the insights of non-western epistemologies such as indigenous futurism.”

—Veronica Hollinger, emerita professor, Trent University, Canada

Explores reproductive technologies and politics through feminist science fiction Highlights the gendered impact of technology and biotechnology on women’s bodies and agency Considers futures of gender, the environment, women’s roles with technology, and AI

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