Debra Benita Shaw is a Reader in Cultural Theory at the University of East London, UK. She is the author of Technoculture: The Key Concepts (2008) and Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space (2018). She is also co-editor (with Maggie Humm) of Radical Space: Exploring Politics and Practice (2016). She has published extensively in the fields of science fiction, gender politics and urban studies and is a founding editor of the Radical Cultural Studies series published by Rowman & Littlefield. The original edition of Women, Science and Fiction was published by Palgrave in 2000.

1. Introduction: The Nearly Silent Listener

2. Herland: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Literature of the Beehive

3. Swastika Night: Katharine Burdekin and the Psychology of Scapegoating

4. 'No Woman Born': C. L. Moore's Dancing Cyborg

5. The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula Le Guin and the Haploid Heart

6. The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood and the Politics of Choice

7. The Power: Naomi Alderman and Archaeologies of Gender

8. The City We Became: N. K. Jemisin and Posthuman Urbanism