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Category:Anime

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Anime

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'''Anime''' is the Japanese name for animated movies (i.e. cartoons), which in Japan cover a much wider range of subject matter than in the United States. Genres of anime include [[shōjo]] (for girls), [[shōnen]] (for boys), [[ero]], a.k.a. hentai in the U.S. ("perverted" pornography), and [[mecha]] (science fiction featuring giant robots). There are numerous subdivisions of the major genres, for example, [[mahō shōjo]] ("magical girl" movies) and [[shōjo-ai]] or [[yuri]] (lesbian "girl-love" stories).

== SFF Anime Featuring Female Protagonists ==

[[Bubblegum Crisis]] (futuristic female soldiers)

[[Ghost in the Shell]] ([[1995]]) by [[Mamoru Oshii]] (Major Motoko Kusanagi, a [[cyborg]] soldier)

[[Haibane Renmei]] (a community of mysteriously angel-like girls)

Most movies by [[Hayao Miyazaki]], including:
*[[My Neighbor Totoro]] (Satsuki and Mei, two young sisters)
*[[Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind]] (Nausicaä, princess of an endangered community)
*[[Kiki's Delivery Service]] (Kiki, a witch in training)
*[[Princess Mononoke]] (San, a "wolf girl" fighting to preserve the forest)
*[[Spirited Away]] (Chihiro/Sen, a young girl trapped in the spirit world)
*[[Howl's Moving Castle (movie)|Howl's Moving Castle]] (Sophie, a girl turned into a feisty old woman by a spell)

[[Project A-Ko]] (Eiko/A-Ko, a superpowered teenager, her mecha-building rival Biko/B-Ko, and her friend Shiiko/C-Ko)

[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]] (Utena Tenjou, a cross-dressing student duellist)

[[Sailor Moon]] (a team of "magical girls" protect the solar system from evil)

[[Vandread]] directed by [[Takeshi Mori]]. 2 seasons of 13 episodes each (2000 & 2001) - gender wars

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Category:Essays

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An Open Letter to Joanna Russ / Jeanne Gomoll

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Influential essay written by [[Jeanne Gomoll]], describing the erasure of feminist sf of the 1970s by [[Bruce Sterling]] and others' descriptions of 1970s sf as dull.

Available at http://www.geocities.com/athens/8720/letter.htm

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Category:Dramatic Works

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The Two of Them

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by [[Joanna Russ]]

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The Steerswoman

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Book 1 in the [[Steerswoman Series]] by [[Rosemary Kirstein]].

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The Passion of New Eve

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Novel by [[Angela Carter]].

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CONTAINS SPOILERS:

In ''The Passion of New Eve'' Carter’s treatment of transgression clarifies into an exploration of gender: transgression becomes transsexual.

The plot follows Evelyn, an arrogant young Englishman, on his travels through an ugly, dystopian America where gang warefare is rife and militant feminist terrorists leave their symbol (the female sign with teeth in the circle, a ''vagina dentata'') all over the cities. Evelyn meets the beautiful black stripper and hash addict Leilah, whom he abandons after she has to have an abortion. Heading out into the desert, Evelyn is captured by a group of feminists who forcibly give him a sex change: Evelyn becomes Eve and goes beyond his all-male boundaries into her new-found sexual America. As a woman (and a reluctant woman at that, one who still has ‘a cock in [her] head’) , Eve is forced into the same world in a different body, discovering the limits men impose on women (the animalistic parody, Zero, who rapes her) and transgressing them when she has sex with the drag queen extraordinaire, Tristessa.

==Themes/Literary Devices==

* Magic realism: Carter knows her sf, and is more than comfortable borrowing aspects of the genre, but her key mode of writing is magic realist at heart. Magic realist texts, unlike sf ones, do not explain the supernatural (through science, etc). Likewise, sf often has a fantastical, furturistic framework (another planet, 1000 years into the future, etc), while magic realism works from a realistic background. Carter mingles the two genres almost equally here: science explains how Evelyn's sex change is possible, but does not explain Eve's mystic experiences with Tristessa, nor does it account for Leilah's transformation into [[Lilith]].

* Transgression: The novel centres around a series of transgressions in behaviour, sex, and gender.

* Archetypes: with typical energy, Carter attacks both misogynistic and feminist [[Clichés, Archetypes, Stereotypes of Female Characters in SF|archetypes]], creating an independent feminist voice for herself.

[[Category:Novels|Passion of New Eve]]

The Lost Steersman

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Book 3 in the [[Steerswoman Series]], by [[Rosemary Kirstein]].

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The Outskirter's Secret

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Book 2 in the [[Steerswoman Series]], by [[Rosemary Kirstein]].

[[Image:Kirstein-OutskirtersSecret.jpg]]

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Cleopatra 2525

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A one-season TV series of 28 or so half-hour episodes (2000-2001). In the year 2525, robots have taken over the surface of the earth, forcing humans underground. Two women warriors (Hel, played by Gina Torres, and Sarge) stumble upon Cleopatra, a woman who had been frozen cryogenically since 2001, and only recently revived. Cleopatra had been a stripper who went in for a boob job.

The three women struggle against the evil robots ("baileys") and their human-disguised cyborgs, as well as bad humans and mutants. They take orders from a disembodied voice ("Voice"), the equivalent of a female Charlie (the voice from Charlie's Angels). They have a faithful servant, Mauser, who is a sexless robot.

==gender issues==
* female action heroes including Hel the leader of the team
* the Voice is female
* sisterhood & female relationships are a theme
* characters placed in sexualized outfits & situations
* villain is powerful woman telepath, Raina, in 1x04

==Intro Sequence==
: Five hundred years into the future
: she will enter a world where machines rule the Earth.
: Mankind has been driven underground.
: And Cleopatra is about to discover
: there's no place like home.

Song:
: In the year 2525
: There are women with a will to survive
: Fighting for a brand new day
: Nothing is gonna get in their way
: And in the year 2525
: Three women keep hope alive
: Joining forces to reclaim the Earth
: Looking ahead to humankind's rebirth

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Category:Firefly

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Category:Star Trek

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)

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1992; US. Director [[Fran Rubel Kuzui]]. Original creator [[Joss Whedon]].

First appearance of the character [[Buffy Summers]], a vampire slayer.

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Cleopatra 2525

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Firefly (TV series)

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2002 television series created by [[Joss Whedon]]. Followed by a comic book and a film, "[[Serenity]]".

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Cleopatra 2525

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[[Image:Cleopatra2525.jpg|right]]

A one-season TV series of 28 or so half-hour episodes (2000-2001). In the year 2525, robots have taken over the surface of the earth, forcing humans underground. Two women warriors (Hel, played by Gina Torres, and Sarge) stumble upon Cleopatra, a woman who had been frozen cryogenically since 2001, and only recently revived. Cleopatra had been a stripper who went in for a boob job.

The three women struggle against the evil robots ("baileys") and their human-disguised cyborgs, as well as bad humans and mutants. They take orders from a disembodied voice ("Voice"), the equivalent of a female Charlie (the voice from Charlie's Angels). They have a faithful servant, Mauser, who is a sexless robot.

==gender issues==
* powerful woman telepath, Raina, in 1x04

==Intro Sequence==
: Five hundred years into the future
: she will enter a world where machines rule the Earth.
: Mankind has been driven underground.
: And Cleopatra is about to discover
: there's no place like home.

Song:
: In the year 2525
: There are women with a will to survive
: Fighting for a brand new day
: Nothing is gonna get in their way
: And in the year 2525
: Three women keep hope alive
: Joining forces to reclaim the Earth
: Looking ahead to humankind's rebirth

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