Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction

1. Introduction: Sociotechnical Design and the Future of GenderPart I Reproductive Technologies2. Ectogenesis on the NHS: Reproduction and Privatization in Twenty-first-Century British Science Fiction3. Being an Artificial Womb Machine-Human4. Environmental Sterilization through Reproductive Sterilization in Sarah Hall's The Carhullan Army5. Groomed for Survival - Queer Reproductive Technologies and Cross-Species Assemblages in Larissa Lai's The Tiger FluPart II Reimagining the Woman6. A Housewife's Dream? Automation and the Problem of Women's Free Time7. Motherhood Beyond Woman: I Am [a Good] Mother and Predecessors Onscreen8. Gender and Reproduction in the Dystopian Works of Sayaka Murata9. Cyborg Separatism: Feminist Utopia in Athena's ChoicePart III Queering Gender10. Drowning in the Cloud: Water, the Digital and the Queer Potential of Feminist Science Fiction11. Making the Multiple: Gender and the Technologies of Multiplicity in Cyberpunk Science Fiction12. Lesbian Cyborgs and the Blueprints for LiberationPart IV Posthuman Females13. Becoming Woman: Healing and Posthuman Subjectivity in Garland's Ex Machina14. Female Ageing and Technological Reproduction. Feminist Transhuman Embodiments in Jasper Fforde's The Woman Who Died A Lot15. 'Growgirls' and Cultured Eggs: Food Futures, and Feminism in SF from the Global South16. Reproductive Futurism, Indigenous Futurism, and the (Non)Human to Come in Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God