{"product_id":"sexual-generations","title":"Sexual Generations","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eBoldly going where no one has gone before, Robin Roberts forges intriguing links between feminist politics and theory and the second \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e series, \u003ci\u003eStar Trek: The Next Generation\u003c\/i\u003e.   This lively discussion shows how science fiction's ability to make the familiar strange allows \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e provides viewers with a new perspective on these experiences and an antidote to explicit and implicit cultural biases.   Roberts maintains that the relevance of \u003ci\u003eStar Trek: The Next Generation\u003c\/i\u003e to feminist issues accounts as no other factor can for the program's huge following of female fans.\u003cbr\u003e The incisive and innovative readings in \u003ci\u003eSexual Generations\u003c\/i\u003e provide food for thought about how the final frontier can clarify pressing questions of our own space and time.\u003cbr\u003e      \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Robin Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615917138300,"sku":"9780252068102","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_95188ca5-879d-49b4-8bb4-01f6a6c89375.jpg?v=1746711466","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/sexual-generations","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}