Space Feminisms: People, Planets, Power

Space Feminisms explores how scientific, popular, scholarly, and artistic imaginations of space have reflected and embedded Earthly hopes, anxieties, and futures since the 1950s. It examines the transformation of gender, race, class, and ableism as they migrate to the extraterrestrial and draws new connections between feminist thought and extraterrestrial power structures.

Format: Hardback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 22 February 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This book delves into the intricate relationship between feminist theory and the imaginative representations of space,spanning from the 1950s to the present. By adopting a global perspective,it explores how scientific, popular, scholarly, and artistic imaginations of space have mirrored and shaped Earthly hopes, anxieties, and futures. Rather than being a mere tool for future envisioning, Space Feminisms actively cultivates radical and alternative modes of inquiry by recognizing space as a material reality that inherently encodes human self-perceptions of their planet and beyond.

The book brings together a diverse range of essayistic reflections, artworks, and interviews with space scientists, engineers, and astronauts from past and present, all in one comprehensive volume. Space Feminisms critically examines the transformative impact of terrestrial notions of gender, race, class, and ableism as they migrate to the extraterrestrial realm, while also forging new connections between feminist thought and extraterrestrial power structures.

Through its radical inquiry, Space Feminisms offers a collaborative and interdisciplinary platform for scholars, artists, and designers to envision radical constructions of human futures beyond Earth. At the intersection of scientific, cultural, social, and artistic speculations, the book gathers leading scholars, scientists, artists, and designers to develop innovative tactics and disruptive participations to create generative, alternative, and radical futures of and in space.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350346321