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Feminist SF has often focused on the body, grounding stories in bodily reality; or tackling the association of women with nature, the earth, and bodies; or taking on sexist perceptions of women's bodies.
Feminist SF has often focused on the body, grounding stories in bodily reality; or tackling the association of women with nature, the earth, and bodies; or taking on sexist perceptions of women's bodies.


Particular topics include:


==Fat==
* [[Body image and beauty standards]]
 
* [[Fat]] - Fat women as characters, particularly point-of-view or sympathetic characters, is all too rare; questions of dieting, eating, and weight are related
* [[Kit Reed]]. ''[[The Food Farm]]''
* [[Body modification]] - Since [[Donna Haraway]] dropped a bomb on the critical/theoretical community with "[[The Cyborg Manifesto]]", body modification to accommodate technology has been a staple consideration of theory as well as of cyberpunk. Traditional body modifications and mutilations (earrings, tattoos; genital mutilation) raise different but related issues.
* [[Spider Robinson]]
* [[Susan Stinson]].  ''[[Martha Moody]]''
 
 
* see [[Fat, Feminism, and Fandom (WisCon 30 Panel)]]
 
==Body Image & Beauty Standards==
* [[Nalo Hopkinson]]. "A Matter of Waste"
* [[Sharleen Jonasson]]. ''[[It's My Body and I'll Cry If I Want To]]'' (2001)
 
 
==Body Modification==
 
 


==Body Processes==
==Body Processes==
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[[Category:Body themes| Body]]
 
[[Category:Body Themes| ]]

Latest revision as of 19:46, 16 February 2007

Feminist SF has often focused on the body, grounding stories in bodily reality; or tackling the association of women with nature, the earth, and bodies; or taking on sexist perceptions of women's bodies.

Particular topics include:

  • Body image and beauty standards
  • Fat - Fat women as characters, particularly point-of-view or sympathetic characters, is all too rare; questions of dieting, eating, and weight are related
  • Body modification - Since Donna Haraway dropped a bomb on the critical/theoretical community with "The Cyborg Manifesto", body modification to accommodate technology has been a staple consideration of theory as well as of cyberpunk. Traditional body modifications and mutilations (earrings, tattoos; genital mutilation) raise different but related issues.

Body Processes