Where No Man has Gone Before: Essays on Women and Science Fiction (Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature)

Synopsis

How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women? To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics? What has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the academic establishment and the publishing industry? These are just some of the questions addressed by this collection of original essays by women writers, readers and critics of the genre. But the undoubted existence of a recent surge of women’s interest in science fiction is by no means the full story. From Mary Shelley onwards, women writers have played a central role in the shaping and reshaping of this genre, irrespective of its undeniably patriarchal image. Through a combination of essays on the work of writers such as Doris Lessing and Ursula Le Guin, with others on still-neglected writers such as Katherine Burdekin and C. L. Moore and a wealth of contemporaries including Suzette Elgin, Gwyneth Jones, Maureen Duffy and Josephine Saxton, this anthology takes a step towards redressing the balance. Perhaps, above all, what this collection demonstrates is that science fiction remains as particularly well-suited to the exploration of woman as ‘alien’ or ‘other’ in our culture today, as it was with the publication of Frankenstein in 1818.

Copyright:

2012

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

248 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781136322082

Related ISBNs:

9780415752268, 9780415521253, 9780203120576

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

07/09/22

Copyrighted By:

Routledge

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Reference, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Language Arts

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Lucie Armitt