{"id":56,"date":"2010-07-21T21:20:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T01:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachingutopia.wordpress.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2012-06-08T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T20:34:20","slug":"plug-in-girls-and-robot-men-gendered-technology-in-science-fiction-film-and-literature-bridgette-barclay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/plug-in-girls-and-robot-men-gendered-technology-in-science-fiction-film-and-literature-bridgette-barclay\/","title":{"rendered":"Plug-in Girls and Robot Men: Gendered Technology in Science Fiction Film and Literature (Bridgette Barclay)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Course Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Science fiction envisions \u201cwhat ifs,\u201d and that speculation is what makes it a superb site for consideration of gender alternatives.\u00a0 In engaging with techno-science, science fiction expresses our cultural hopes and fears and forces us to take a closer look at our assumptions about what defines \u201cman\u201d and what defines \u201cwoman.\u201d\u00a0 By pushing what we consider the \u201cnorm,\u201d science fiction expands what we see as possible, changing our views of reality, which is why Donna Haraway writes, \u201cscience fiction is political theory.\u201d\u00a0 In this course, we will focus on the uses of male and female bodies in science fiction film and literature to study how these texts expose and offer alternatives to our assumptions about gender.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/files\/2010\/04\/plug-in-girls-and-robot-men-gendered-technology-in-science-fiction-film-and-literature-bridgitte-barclay.pdf\">Click here<\/a> for the full syllabus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Description: Science fiction envisions \u201cwhat ifs,\u201d and that speculation is what makes it a superb site for consideration of gender alternatives.\u00a0 In engaging with techno-science, science fiction expresses our cultural hopes and fears and forces us to take a closer look at our assumptions about what defines \u201cman\u201d and what defines \u201cwoman.\u201d\u00a0 By pushing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syllabi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3lS3Y-U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}