Sexual Generations: Star Trek: The Next Generation and Gender

by Robin Roberts

Book Overview

Boldly going where no one has gone before, Robin Roberts forges intriguing links between feminist politics and theory and the second Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. This lively discussion shows how science fiction's ability to make the familiar strange allows Star Trek to expose and comment on entrenched attitudes toward gender roles and feminist issues. By having aliens or sexually neutral beings enact female dominance or passivity,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252024559
• ISBN13: 9780252024559
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Data as Stepford Wife

Got your attention, didn't I? This book explores the different depictions of gender in Star Trek Next Generation. It addresses issues that have made me vaguely uneasy about the series and explores their meaning within the STNG "universe." (I'm referring to issues like race, gender roles, and the "other" as metaphor.) This is definitely NOT a study for those who adhere to the Star Trek canon. However, if you're open alternate points of view, you'll really enjoy "Sexual Generations." The only critisism I have is that I think the authors should have expanded their study to include fanfic -- which often pushes the limits of gender much more radically than Star Trek Next Generation ever did.