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'''''The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress''''' is a well-known and highly-regarded 1966 novel by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], about a lunar colony's revolution against Earth. | |||
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* "In general "sexual liberated women" = "sexually available to everyone" . Examples include: ... The scene in ''[[The Moon is a Harsh Mistress]]'' where the men are training with guns for the revolution, and then the narrator starts to talk about what the women are doing to help, and for just a moment there the reader gets excited about what the women are doing and them getting a meaningful part. Then he tells us that the women get to help "keep up the morale" by bouncing their breasts in low-g. So the only way women can help the revolution is by being sex objects." (see [[Robert A. Heinlein]] entry; [http://wiki.feministsf.net/index.php?title=Robert_A._Heinlein&oldid=40663 2011/01/06]) | |||
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* ''[[A Door into Ocean]]'' by [[Joan M. Slonczewski]] (1986) was written in part with ''The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress'' in mind. Slonczewski notes: | * ''[[A Door into Ocean]]'' by [[Joan M. Slonczewski]] (1986) was written in part with ''The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress'' in mind. Slonczewski notes: | ||
:: "Another less obvious influence was that of Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harch Mistress. This book impressed me for its sense of humor in depicting the lunar community throwing off their colonial masters. In fact, actual totalitarian societies such as the former Soviet Union have always fostered considerable amounts of humor as a coping mechanism and as a subtle (or not so subtle) means of subversion. Unlike some other Cold War-influences writers, I have always tried to follow Heinlein's example in showing the humorous aspects of political struggle."<ref name="JSstudyguide">[[Joan Slonczewski]], [http://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/books/adoor_art/adoor_study.htm Study Guide for ''A Door into Ocean''] (Jan. 4, 2001).</ref> | :: "Another less obvious influence was that of Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harch Mistress. This book impressed me for its sense of humor in depicting the lunar community throwing off their colonial masters. In fact, actual totalitarian societies such as the former Soviet Union have always fostered considerable amounts of humor as a coping mechanism and as a subtle (or not so subtle) means of subversion. Unlike some other Cold War-influences writers, I have always tried to follow Heinlein's example in showing the humorous aspects of political struggle."<ref name="JSstudyguide">[[Joan Slonczewski]], [http://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/books/adoor_art/adoor_study.htm Study Guide for ''A Door into Ocean''] (Jan. 4, 2001).</ref> | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress Wikipedia] | |||
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Revision as of 07:43, 6 January 2011
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a well-known and highly-regarded 1966 novel by Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolution against Earth.
- Notes
- "In general "sexual liberated women" = "sexually available to everyone" . Examples include: ... The scene in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress where the men are training with guns for the revolution, and then the narrator starts to talk about what the women are doing to help, and for just a moment there the reader gets excited about what the women are doing and them getting a meaningful part. Then he tells us that the women get to help "keep up the morale" by bouncing their breasts in low-g. So the only way women can help the revolution is by being sex objects." (see Robert A. Heinlein entry; 2011/01/06)
Further reading
- A Door into Ocean by Joan M. Slonczewski (1986) was written in part with The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress in mind. Slonczewski notes:
- "Another less obvious influence was that of Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harch Mistress. This book impressed me for its sense of humor in depicting the lunar community throwing off their colonial masters. In fact, actual totalitarian societies such as the former Soviet Union have always fostered considerable amounts of humor as a coping mechanism and as a subtle (or not so subtle) means of subversion. Unlike some other Cold War-influences writers, I have always tried to follow Heinlein's example in showing the humorous aspects of political struggle."[1]
References
- ↑ Joan Slonczewski, Study Guide for A Door into Ocean (Jan. 4, 2001).
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