The Body

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

• Menstruation
• Pregnancy
• Breastfeeding, Nursing, Breast Milk
• Aging
• Sexuality, Reproduction, Family Arrangements