Embodying Hybridity, (En)gendering Community: Captain Janeway and the Enactment of a Feminist Heterotopia on<i>Star Trek: Voyager</i>

Dove-Viebahn, Aviva

doi:10.1080/00497870701683894

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“…The notion can be found scattered across media studies (e.g. Dove‐Viebhan ), literary studies (e.g. Bryant‐Bertail ; Meerzon ), science fiction studies (e.g.…”

Section: Heterotopia's Cottage Industrymentioning

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The Geographies of Heterotopia

Johnson

2013

Geography Compass

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This article explores the ongoing fascination with Foucault's brief and rather sketchy idea of heterotopia. Drawing out some key lessons from the most sustained interpretations of this curious spatio‐temporal concept, it addresses weaknesses and potential contradictions and goes on to highlight trends and emerging themes in studies that incorporate the notion. The article argues that although the uses of Foucault's accounts of heterotopia are bewilderingly diverse, heterotopias are most productively understood in the context of Foucault's insistence on ‘making difference’ and their adoption as a tool of analysis to illuminate the multifaceted features of cultural and social spaces and to invent new ones.

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“…The notion can be found scattered across media studies (e.g. Dove‐Viebhan ), literary studies (e.g. Bryant‐Bertail ; Meerzon ), science fiction studies (e.g.…”

Section: Heterotopia's Cottage Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Geographies of Heterotopia

Johnson

2013

Geography Compass

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“…Interestingly, the source of these witches' power is their display of motherhood, which is an issue that many feminists (especially those who deny gender difference) have been grappling with for some time (Fraustino and Coats 2016), as motherhood and feminism seem to be on two opposite ends of the spectrum. I argue that, as is displayed in Ripley, Connor and Janeway, who are often discussed in feminist circles (see, e.g., Bowring 2004;Dove-Viebahn 2007;Faithful 2016;Graham 2010;Innes 1999), these witches' maternal values do not undermine their transgressive potential, but rather become the source of their empowerment.…”

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Magical Mothers: The Representation of Witches and Motherhood in Contemporary Fantasy Cinema

Engelbrecht

2021

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Over the past decade, powerful mothers in cinema have reappeared in the fantasy genre in the form of "witches". Some witches' stories, such as that of Maleficent (the wicked witch from the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty), have even been rewritten to place greater emphasis on maternal values, while simultaneously having feminist undertones and subverting the ways in which witches' stories have been told previously. In contrast to the widely regarded belief that only evil witches (who are often also read as femme fatales) are considered to be "feminist", the author argues that recently, witches that are both good and feminist have started to come to the fore. Significantly, the source of these witches' power is their display of motherhood, which is an issue that many feminists (especially those who deny gender difference) have been grappling with for some time, as motherhood and feminism seem to be on two opposite ends of the spectrum. Thus, the author argues that, as is displayed in science fiction heroines from the 1980s and 1990s who are often discussed in feminist circles, these witches' maternal values do not undermine their transgressive potential, as it is conventionally assumed, but rather become the source of their empowerment.

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From Bones to Brain: 50 Years of Star Trek and Changes in the Stigmatization of Psychological Disorders

Basilowski

Schönfeld²,

Esser

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Curr Psychol

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The Star Trek franchise currently includes five spin-off series and 13 motion pictures. Star Trek's central theme is the utopian future of mankind, but the series does not disregard issues that were socially relevant for its time of production. Therefore, Star Trek has functioned as a representation of history throughout its 50-year lifespan. This paper conducts a comparative analysis of fictional representations of psychological disorders and corresponding treatments to retrace the cultural changes in the portrayal and treatment of psychological disorders from the 1960s to the turn of the millennium. Video material produced between 1966 and 1999 was analysed with a focus on psychological disorders and coded according to the ICD-10. The results of the quantitative analysis indicate that the different Star Trek series demonstrate similar patterns of percentage distributions for psychological disorders. The qualitative analysis shows that psychological disorders were portrayed and treated in an increasingly realistic fashion. Changes in society's attitude towards psychological disorders can be comprehensively illustrated through Star Trek episodes produced through 1999. Psychological phenomena are increasingly destigmatized, and the necessity of treatment has not been disregarded.

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Embodying Hybridity, (En)gendering Community: Captain Janeway and the Enactment of a Feminist Heterotopia onStar Trek: Voyager

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

The Geographies of Heterotopia

The Geographies of Heterotopia

Magical Mothers: The Representation of Witches and Motherhood in Contemporary Fantasy Cinema

From Bones to Brain: 50 Years of Star Trek and Changes in the Stigmatization of Psychological Disorders

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