Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2001
Abstract
In the following, noted science fiction scholar Marleen S. Barr argues for an increased attention to science fiction as a literature of the potentials of globalization, a genre that has largely been marginalized in discussions of the future of a globalized techno-culture. Further, Barr argues for greater attention being paid to feminist utopian fiction which helps to reimagine women's roles in the increasingly complex, and increasingly capitalistic, globalized techno-culture that has continued to marginalize the female body (and consciousness) in much the same way that scholars have denied the possibilities of utopian science fiction.
Comments
Original publication: Barr, Marleen S. "The Invisible Can Or, Gendering Corporate Globalization Trouble: Technological Utopianism and the Language of Erasure." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. Vol. 1 No. 1, Fall 2001. http://reconstruction.eserver.org/Issues/011/theinvisiblecan.htm