Childless dystopia: The human extinction using a female perspective
Abstract
Among the many subgenres of dystopian science fiction, there is at least one that seems to be typically female: the childless dystopia. This type of novel finds its premises both in male dystopian literature and, above all, in the reality of the female authors. In fact, since the third wave of feminism in particular, there has been a decline in the birth rate, which is often attributed to women’s new lifestyle. The comparison between the novels under consideration allows us to outline the themes that are common to all the authors, in order to criticize the patriarchal culture and the predetermined role of women in society.
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Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale [1985], Portsmouth, Heinemann, 1993.
Arias de Reyna, Inés, “El lenguaje inclusivo en la literature de género”, Hijas del future. Literature de ciencia ficción, fantástica y de lo meravilloso desde la mirada feminista, Eds. Cristina Jurado-Lola Robles, Bilbao, Consonni, 2021, pp. 65-79.
Baccolini, Raffaella, “Corpo, diritti riproduttivi e rapporti di genere nelle distopie delle donne del terzo millennio”, Cosmopolis. Rivista di filosofia e teoria politica, XVI (2018), online https://www.cosmopolisonline.it/articolo.php?numero=XV122018&id=2 (ultimo accesso 14/06/2023).
Balasopoulos, Antonis, “Anti-Utopia and Dystopia: Rethinking the Generic Field”, Utopia Project Archive, 2006-2010, Ed. Vassilis Vla-staras, Athens School of Fine Arts Publications, 2011, pp. 59-67.
Barceló, Elia, Consecuencias naturales [1994], Madrid, Crononauta, 2019.
Battaglia, Beatrice, La critica alla cultura occidentale nella letteratura ingle-se, Ravenna, Longo editore, 2006.
Burdekin, Katharine (Murray Constantine), Swastika Night [1937], New York, Feminist Press, 1985.
Catrilef Lerchundi, Vanessa Jahaira, “Los mecanismos de trasmisión de estereotipos de género por los y las docentes en la entidad esco-lar”, Comunicación & género, Eds. Mercedes Arriago Flórez - Amalia Ortiz de Zárate Fernández - Norma Huerta Andrade – Rodrigo Browne Sartori – Víctor Silva Echeto, Sevilla, ArCiBel Editores, 2009, pp. 37-49.
Ciampi, Eduardo, “Una sottile linea di confine”, Utopia e distopia. L’invisibile confine. Storia, Letteratura e Attualità, Roma, Ciampi edi-tore, 2020, pp. 13-20.
Ciampi, Eduardo, “La religione”, Utopia e distopia. L’invisibile confine. Storia, Letteratura e Attualità, Roma, Ciampi editore, 2020, pp. 36-45.
Claeys, Gregory, “Three Variants on the Concept of Dystopia”, Dysto-pian Matters: On the Page, on Screen, on Stage, Ed. Fátima Vieira, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 14-18.
Crossley, Robert, “Dystopian Nights”, Science Fiction Studies, XIV, 1 (1987): 93-98.
D’Intino, Franco, L’autobiografia moderna. Storia, forme, problemi, Roma, Bulzoni editore, 1998.
Foucault, Michel, La volonté de s’avoir, Paris, èditions Gallimard, 1976 (trad. it. La volontà di sapere. Storia della sessualità 1, Milano, Feltri-nelli, 2021).
Gallo, Domenico, “Nota”, K. Burdekin, La notte della svastica, Palermo, Sellerio editore, 2020.
Iannuzzi, Giulia, Distopie, viaggi spaziali, allucinazioni. Fantascienza ital-iana contemporanea, Milano, Mimesis, 2015.
James, Phyllis Dorothy, The Children of Men [1992], London, Penguin Books, 1994.
López-Pellisa, Teresa, “Prólogo”, Poshumanas y distópicas. Antología de escritoras españolas de ciencia ficción. Vol. 1, Eds. Teresa López-Pellisa - Lola Robles, León, Eolas ediciones, 2019.
López-Pellisa, Teresa, “Epílogo: Naturales (in)consecuencias”, Con-secuencias Naturales, Ed. Elia Barceló, Madrid, Crononauta, 2019.
Lewis, Arthur O., “The Anti-Utopian Novel: Preliminary Notes and Checklist”, Extrapolation, II, 2 (1961): 27-32.
Malvestio, Marco, Raccontare la fine del mondo. Fantascienza e Antropoce-no, Milano, Nottetempo, 2021.
Martínez, Layla, “Hermanas del futuro. Ciencia ficción escrita por mujeres entre los siglos XVII y XIX”, Hijas del futuro. Literature de ciencia ficción, fantástica y de lo meravilloso desde la mirada feminista, Eds. Cristina Jurado - Lola Robles, Bilbao, Consonni, 2021, pp. 45-63.
Miceli, Barbara, “Religion, Gender Inequality and Surrogate Mother-hood”, Cosmo, Comparative Studies in Modernism, XII (2018): 95-108.
Moylan, Tom - Baccolini, Raffaella, “Critical Dystopia and Possibili-ties”, Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination, Eds. Tom Moylan - Raffaella Baccolini, New York, Routledge, 2013, pp. 233-249.
Navas Ocaña, María Isabel, “«Buscando el modo»: Teoría y crítica lit-eraria feminista España”, Los estudios de las mujeres hacia el espacio común europeo, Eds. Mercedes Arriago Flórez - José Manuel Estévez Saá - Dolores López Enamorado - Gemma Vincente Arregui, Sevil-la, ArCiBel Editores, 2004, pp. 356-386.
Pagetti, Carlo, “Prefazione”, K. Burdekin, La notte della svastica, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1993.
Pennacchia, Maddalena, “L’adattamento filmico come rigenerazione del testo romanzesco: The Children of Men da P. D. James ad Al-fonso Cuarón”, Regenerating Community, Territory, Voices. Memory and Vision, Ed. Laura Di Michele, Napoli, Liguori Editore, 2012.
Robles, Lola, “La mirada violeta: qué es la perspectiva de género sobre la literatura de género”, Hijas del futuro. Literature de ciencia ficción, fantástica y de lo meravilloso desde la mirada feminista, Eds. Cristina Jurado - Lola Robles, Bilbao, Consonni, 2021.
Sáez de la Fuente Aldama, Izasku - Matilla Blanco, Isabel, “Prácticas de interpretación bíblica desde una perspectiva teórico crítica fe-minista: narrando una trayectoria”, Los estudios de las mujeres hacia el espacio común europeo, Eds. Mercedes Arriago Flórez - José Ma-nuel Estévez Saá - Dolores López Enamorado - Gemma Vincente Arregui, Sevilla, ArCiBel Editores, 2004, pp. 22-31.
Sargent, Lyman Tower, “Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited”, Uto-pian Studies, V, 1 (1994): 1-37.
Tauton, Matthew, “Katherine Burdekin and Collective Speech: Poli-tics, Chorus and Liturgy”, Women: A cultural review, XXXI, 4 (2020): 384-400.
SITOGRAFIA:
Baldini, Alessandra, “Resistenza Anti Trump, Atwood scrive il sequel di The Handmaid’s Tale”, Ansa, 30 Novembre 2018, https://www.ansa.it/canale_lifestyle/notizie/societa_diritti/2018/11/29/resistenza-anti-trump-atwood-scrive-il-sequel-di-the-handmaids-tale-_0a5014d5-1fd7-4185-a030-a78b943ca265.html, web (ultimo accesso 20/05/2023).
Meotti, Giulio, "#MeToo ricorda le purghe di Stalin". L'affondo di Margaret Atwood, Il Foglio, 16 Gennaio 2018, https://www.ilfoglio.it/esteri/2018/01/16/news/metoo-ricorda-le-purghe-di-stalin-l-affondo-di-margaret-atwood-173205/, web (ul-timo accesso 23/05/2023).
Nicolopoulos, Sophia-Maria,‘Return O children of wo/men’: Feminist Reading of the Religion Patterns in P. D. James ‘The Children of Men’, 2017, https://www.academia.edu/31882898/_Return_o_children_of_men_Feminist_Readings_of_the_Religious_Patterns_in_P_D_James_The_Children_of_Men_, web (ultimo accesso 03/06/2023).
Oppeneheim, Maya, Margaret Atwood: Feminism is not about believ-ing women are always right, «Indipendent», 18 July 2017, https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-author-feminism-women-not-always-right-a7847316.html, web (ultimo accesso 25/05/2023).
Il calo delle nascite è un bene o un male?, «Il Post», 16 luglio 2021, https://www.ilpost.it/2021/07/16/calo-nascite/, web (ultimo acces-so 23/05/2023).
L’infertilità in Italia: statistiche e problematiche più importanti, in Ivi Italia blog, 27 settembre 2017, https://ivitalia.it/blog/linfertilita-in-italia-statistiche-e-problematiche-piu-importanti/, web (ultimo accesso 23/05/2023).
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2024-11-26
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Cardia, C. (2024). <em>Childless dystopia</em>: The human extinction using a female perspective. Between, 14(27), 637-656. https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/5841
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