Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature | Gender
In the following essay, Roberts explores feminist Science Fiction and the “images of women in science fiction.”
One of the major theoretical projects of the second wave of feminism is the investigation of gender and sexuality as social constructs. . . . The stock conventions of science fiction—time travel, alternate worlds, entropy, relativism, the search for a unified field theory— can be used metaphorically and metonymically as powerful ways of exploring the construction of ‘woman’.
(Sarah Lefanu . . .)
Women’s science fiction, or feminist science fiction, is a more recent development than the genre as a whole, but today constitutes one of the...
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