Breeding Unity: Battlestar Galactica's Biracial Reproductive Futurity.

The article discusses the theme of eugenics in the science fiction television series "Battlestar Galactica." The author argues that the series, which lacks queer characters, envisions the future in terms of purely heterosexual biracial reproduction, tying the human specie's survival to the selection...

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Publicado en:Camera Obscura Vol. 27; no. 81; pp. 1 - 40
Autor principal: Kustritz, Anne
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Duke University Press Sep2012
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