Foremothers of Today's Feminist SF (WisCon 31 panel)
Reading, Viewing, and Critiquing SF&F•Caucus Room• Saturday, 1:00-2:15 p.m.
The Left Hand of Darkness broke ground when it was written, but to readers today who missed that period in history, it might seem gender-biased. Compare the original Earthsea trilogy to Tehanu, written later. Not only Le Guin's opinions changed, but the world in which she was writing had changed as well. What makes the feminist speculative fiction of today different from that of "First Wave" feminist sf? How do new readers see fiction from the "First Wave" and later? And is it important that they have a grounding in the genre's history?
M: L. Timmel Duchamp, Jeanne Gomoll, Lesley Hall, Lynn Kendall, Laura J. Mixon