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* feminist pacifists see a relationship between feminism and pacifism, and hold that violence is inherently anti-feminist; some feminists see violence as inherently male, either biologically or culturally. | * feminist pacifists see a relationship between feminism and pacifism, and hold that violence is inherently anti-feminist; some feminists see violence as inherently male, either biologically or culturally. | ||
** [[Sally Miller Gearhart]]'s ''[[The Wanderground]] imagines a utopia, contrasting the non-violent, spiritual female inhabitants with the violent male patriarchal denizens of the dystopian cities. | ** [[Sally Miller Gearhart]]'s ''[[The Wanderground]]'' imagines a utopia, contrasting the non-violent, spiritual female inhabitants with the violent male patriarchal denizens of the dystopian cities. | ||
** [[Sheri S. Tepper]]'s ''[[The Gate to Women's Country]] imagines a dystopic future, in which women have determined that masculine violence is threatening to the survival of humanity and that it is, moreover, biologically based, and can be bred out. | ** [[Sheri S. Tepper]]'s ''[[The Gate to Women's Country]] imagines a dystopic future, in which women have determined that masculine violence is threatening to the survival of humanity and that it is, moreover, biologically based, and can be bred out. | ||
Revision as of 16:01, 11 July 2006
Feminists may have a wide variety of views towards violence, and feminist SF likewise may represent various views towards violence. For instance:
- feminist pacifists see a relationship between feminism and pacifism, and hold that violence is inherently anti-feminist; some feminists see violence as inherently male, either biologically or culturally.
- Sally Miller Gearhart's The Wanderground imagines a utopia, contrasting the non-violent, spiritual female inhabitants with the violent male patriarchal denizens of the dystopian cities.
- Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country imagines a dystopic future, in which women have determined that masculine violence is threatening to the survival of humanity and that it is, moreover, biologically based, and can be bred out.
- power feminists or equality feminists might see violence as part of the human condition, and that women are as susceptible or prone to it as men.
- Nicola Griffith's Ammonite asks what would happen to a world with only women on it, and discovers that it would have power-seeking, violent people, just as bi-sexed worlds