Drones, Clones, and Alpha Babes: Retrofitting Star Trek's Humanism, Post-9/11University of Calgary Press, 2006 - 168 strán (strany) The Star Trek franchise represents one of the most successful emanations of popular media in our culture. The number of books, both popular and scholarly, published on the subject of Star Trek is massive, with more and more titles printed every year. Very few, however, have looked at Star Trek in terms of the dialectics of humanism and the posthuman, the pervasiveness of advanced technology, and the complications of gender identity. In Drones, Clones and Alpha Babes, Diana Relke sheds light on how the Star Trek narratives influence and are influenced by shifting cultural values in the United States, using these as portals to the sociopolitical and sociocultural landscapes of the United States, pre- and post-9/11. From her Canadian perspective, Relke focuses on Star Trek's uniquely American version of liberal humanism, extends it into a broader analysis of ideological features, and avoids a completely positive or negative critique, choosing instead to honour the contradictions inherent in the complexity of the subject. |
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... women may be reading - or willfully misreading – the text . The work of Robin Roberts exemplifies this ap- proach ... women's roles . Her Sexual Generations ( 1999 ) , a thematic study of gender issues in The Next Generation , and her ...
... women , they want their sentiments . All men , except the most brutish , desire to have , in the woman most nearly connected with them , not a forced slave but a willing one , not a slave merely , but a favourite . They have therefore ...
... women " who suit the fancies of TNG's men . Although women seldom if ever show an interest in creating synthetic males , she points out , the men have a “ fascination with synthetic wom- en as opposed to real ones - in particular , with ...
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