Space Feminisms

People, Planets, Power

Marie-Pier Boucher, Claire Webb, Annick Bureaud, Nahum, Marie-Pier Boucher, Claire Webb, Annick Bureaud, Nahum

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781350346321
• eBook ISBN: 9781350346345
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Art Theory & Criticism
• Index: Social Sciences

This book examines the history and future of space as a site of social justice and gender equality.
Rather than simply a platform for imagining the future, it cultivates alternative modes of inquiry around space as a possible speculative platform for social and cultural enquiry. Bringing together essayistic reflections, artworks, and interviews with space scientists, engineers, and astronauts past and present, Space Feminisms inspects the transformation of terrestrially held notions of gender, race, class, and ableism as they migrate to the extraterrestrial, whilst drawing new connections between feminist thought and extraterrestrial power structures.

Space Feminisms makes a radical enquiry into how earthly power structures are already expanding into our skies, facilitating a collaborative and interdisciplinary platform for scholars, artists, and designers to imagine radical constructions of human futures beyond Earth. At the intersection of scientific, cultural, social, and artistic speculations, the book unites leading scholars, scientists, artists, and designers to develop innovative tactics and disruptive participations to create generative, alternative, and radical futures of and in space.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Plates
• List of Figures
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Part One Diagramming Space Feminisms
• Diagramming Space Feminisms
• Part Two Space Feminisms, Humanities, and Social Sciences
• 2.1 Black Planetary Feminism: Octavia E. Butler, Breath, Gaia, and Regulatory Connection
• 2.2 Spectral Legacies: Cultivating Feminist Spaces in the Soviet Search for Life on Mars
• 2.3 The Troubles of Care Out There
• 2.4 Revisiting Gender, Sex, and Reproduction in Outer Space
• Part Three Space Feminisms, Space Sciences, and Engineering
• 3.1 Space Feminisms Roundtable with Mazlan Othman, Jessie Ndaba, Susmita Mohanty, Jill Stuart, and Lucianne Walkowicz
• 3.2 In Conversation with Astronaut Jessica Meir
• 3.3 In Conversation with Astronaut Soyeon Yi
• 3.4 In Conversation with Astronaut Nicole Stott
• Part Four Space Feminisms, Art, and Culture
• 4.1 The Space Between Us: Art, Gender, and Space Exploration in the 1990s and 2000s
• 4.2 Fragments of “TX-2: MOONSHADOW Mission Requirements Document”
• 4.3 Wohˇpe Wakaŋ: Falling Star Woman Unravels Western Cultural Supremacy
• 4.4 Decolonizing the Future in Outer Space: Feminist and Indigiqueer Slipstream on Film
• 4.5 Ancestrofuturism: Two Stories of Women who Travel in Time and Space
• 4.6 Sounding Space Feminisms: In Conversation with Anna Piva
• Part Five Space Feminisms and Art Gallery
• 5.1 Space Artworks—an Introduction
• 5.2 Kitsou Dubois: Analogies and Traversées
• 5.3 Frank Pietronigro: Astronaut Steffany
• 5.4 Larissa Sansour: A Space Exodus
• 5.5 Aleksandra Mir: First Woman on the Moon
• 5.6 Bettina Forget: Women With Impact / One Small Step
• 5.7 Liliane Lijn: moonmeme
• 5.8 Ale de la Puente: An Infinite and . . . el primer deseo (the first wish/desire)
• 5.9 Constanza Piña Pardo: Khipu // Electrotextile Pre-Hispanic Computer
• 5.10 Ani Liu: Olfactory Time Capsule for Earthly Memories
• 5.11 Empress Stah Power: Empress Stah in Space and Stargasm
• Part Six Space Feminisms, Architecture, and Design
• 6.1 Building for Space: In Conversation with LIQUIFER (Barbara Imhof, Waltraut Hoheneder, and René Waclavicek)
• 6.2 Sleeping Bags to Sex Den: Bedrooms in Space Eleanor S. Armstrong and Akvilė Terminaitė
• 6.3 Could Commercializing Space Travel Influence Inequities Female Astronauts Face with Personal Protective Equipment?
• 6.4 Going to Space with Universal Design: Why Space Travel Isn’t Accessible and Why It Should Be
• 6.5 In Conversation with Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
• 6.6 Space Architecture for the Last of Us: Reflections on Off-World Planetary Construction
• Part Seven Space Feminisms Anarchive
• 7.1 NASA Rejection Letters
• 7.2 Mercury 13
• 7.3 Hazel Fellows Sews Playtex’s Apollo 11 Spacesuit
• 7.4 La Porte des Mondes (Serge Samyn) and Androgynous Peripheral Assembly System (Vladimir Syromiatnikov)
• 7.5 Pickering’s Harem at Harvard Observatory
• 7.6 First Detection of a Pulsar by Jocelyn Bell Burnell
• 7.7 From Barbarella to Barbie and Back Annick Bureaud
• Part Eight Epilogue
• Feminists In [Space]
• Index
• Plates
• Copyright