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Contents:

	Acknowledgments (p. ix)
	Introduction (p. 1)
	Part 1 Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Feminine
	1 "The Sensors are Having Difficulty Penetrating the Interiors": The Female Alien (p. 17)
	2 "A Threat to the Entire Future of the Federation": The Woman Ruler (p. 45)
	3 "I Am for You": The Perfect Mate (p. 66)
	Part 2 Star Trek: The Next Generation and Sexual and Racial Politics
	4 "Fully Functional": Machines and Gender (p. 91)
	5 "What Makes you Think you Can Dictate How We Love?": Sexual Orientation (p. 108)
	6 "We Weren't Meant to Know Each Other at All": Race (p. 125)
	7 "The Right to Exercise Control": Reproductive Politics (p. 144)
	8 "No, I Won't Let You": Rape, Romance, and Consent (p. 164)
	Epilogue (p. 183)
	Works Cited (p. 191)
	Index (p. 197)

Description: »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, experience pregnancy or maternity, or suffer rape or abortion, Star Trek provides viewers with a new perspective on these experiences and an antidote to explicit and implicit cultural biases. Roberts maintains that the relevance of Star Trek: The Next Generation to feminist issues accounts as no other factor can for the program's huge following of female fans.« (Source: University of Illinois Press)

Reviews:
- H., Jarrah. The Geek Anthropologist (June 27, 2014). - Full Text: The Geek Anthropologist (Freee Access)

- Kennedy, George. South Central Review 19(2-3) (Summer-Autumn 2002): 115-117. - Full Text: JSTOR (Restricted Access)

- Weinbaum, Batya. Utopian Studies 11(2) (2000): 292-293. - Full Text: JSTOR (Restricted Access)

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