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Feminist SF can be broken into types or subgenres. These typologies, limited to some extent as all post hoc genre analyses are, can nevertheless be a useful way of thinking about changes within feminist SF as a whole. | Feminist SF can be broken into types or subgenres. These typologies, limited to some extent as all post hoc genre analyses are, can nevertheless be a useful way of thinking about changes within feminist SF as a whole. | ||
Because "feminist SF" can be both a unique genre, and an approach within broader SF ("feminist" as an adjective), typologies can be broad and various. | |||
* Historical: Roughly parallel to the "waves" model of feminism: SF before it was defined as SF, particularly women's writing since it more regularly examined or critiqued gender issues (19th c ghost stories; utopian visions); gender issues examined during the pulp era / golden age of SF, particularly women writers, who were often writing in disguise or from the margins (CL Moore); women writing during the golden era of feminist SF (Joanna Russ); post-feminist era | * Historical: Roughly parallel to the "waves" model of feminism: SF before it was defined as SF, particularly women's writing since it more regularly examined or critiqued gender issues (19th c ghost stories; utopian visions); gender issues examined during the pulp era / golden age of SF, particularly women writers, who were often writing in disguise or from the margins (CL Moore); women writing during the golden era of feminist SF (Joanna Russ); post-feminist era | ||
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Revision as of 09:26, 19 May 2007
Feminist SF can be broken into types or subgenres. These typologies, limited to some extent as all post hoc genre analyses are, can nevertheless be a useful way of thinking about changes within feminist SF as a whole.
Because "feminist SF" can be both a unique genre, and an approach within broader SF ("feminist" as an adjective), typologies can be broad and various.
- Historical: Roughly parallel to the "waves" model of feminism: SF before it was defined as SF, particularly women's writing since it more regularly examined or critiqued gender issues (19th c ghost stories; utopian visions); gender issues examined during the pulp era / golden age of SF, particularly women writers, who were often writing in disguise or from the margins (CL Moore); women writing during the golden era of feminist SF (Joanna Russ); post-feminist era
- Nancy Jane Moore's typology of current feminist SF (published at Ambling Along the Aqueduct, 2007/5/2
- adventure stories in which women have the major adventures; e.g., sword-and-sorceress, or space opera.
- works that show women acting in the world more broadly than permitted in past fiction
- gender issues examined by men
- sophisticated science fiction that takes up the possibilities that are opening up from biology -- and artificial intelligence as well -- and makes us re-think everything we've ever thought we understood about gender.