Feminisms, Technology and Depth Psychology: An Enquiry

Feminisms, Technology and Depth Psychology explores the intersection of a variety of feminist thought with technology through the lens of depth psychology, and investigates how current approaches to technology impact female life globally - from internet use, to biotechnology, to how female creators imagine life.

This thought-provoking collection is a discussion on changing female capacities and creativity. It questions whether female oppression is becoming more easily enabled within the context of technology use, touching on topics of manipulation, ecological awareness, female decision making, and more. Part One is a three-chapter investigation on queer history, birthing, and reproductive technologies in science fiction novels. Part Two explores images of females and technology in a variety of cultural products ranging from science fiction films to contemporary TV dramas and novels. Part Three looks at the political impact of technology on female worlds, and Part Four examines perspectives on the creative process behind writing science fiction and fantasy.

Feminisms, Technology and Depth Psychology will appeal to Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, and analytical psychologists. It also offers insightful perspectives to academics and students of psychology, gender studies, and politics.

Leslie Gardner PhD is a fellow in the department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex; she has published articles on depth psychology, and a book, Rhetorical Investigations; CG Jung and GB Vico (Routledge, 2014) as well as co-convened conferences and edited books of the conference feminisms and depth psychology, and classics and depth psychology. She heads up an international literary agency, Artellus Ltd in London UK. She is assisting as co-editor on a new series of Jung and politics with Routledge. Her upcoming work is on ghostwriting, commissioned by Routledge.

Catriona Miller is a Professor in Media at Glasgow Caledonian University and author of Cult TV Heroines (Bloomsbury, 2020). She has also published on film theory, feminism and mythology from a depth psychology perspective. She is editor in chief of the Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Roula-Maria Dib (PhD, Leeds) is an award-winning Jungian/literary scholar, poet, educator and editor. She is the founding director of the London Arts-Based Research Centre, founding editor of literary and arts journal, Indelible, and creative producer of literary event series, Indelible Evenings, as well as Jungian virtual salon, Psychreative.