Decoding Gender in Science Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780415939492 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 222 str.

Brian Attebery;Attebery Brian

Opis

This text looks at the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored and revised conventional notions of gender. Although the study draws on feminist insights, it is not exclusively devoted to women writers or the treatment of women characters. Instead it examines both men's and women's writing and the question of sexual difference. Beginning with science fiction's origins (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein) and following to the 21st century, it suggests new perspectives on the field's best-known writers.

Spis treści

1. Secret Decoder Ring 2. From Neat Idea to Trope 3. Animating the Inert: Gender and Science in the Pulps 4. Super Men 5. Wonder Women 6. Women Alone, Men Alone 7. Androgyny as Difference 8. "But Aren't Those Just...You Know, Metaphors?" 9. Who Farms the Future?

O autorze

Brian Attebery is Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Idaho State University. He is author of Strategies of Fantasy and The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature, and co-editor, with Ursula K. Le Guin, of The Norton Book of Science Fiction.