Talk:Feminist SF

We could try, here, to write an encyclopedia-entry style of definition. It should include several different answers:

- Feminist sf is work that qualifies as feminist by the standards of judgement of various feminisms. (What are those standards?)

- There is a historical feminist sf of works that have been considered by feminists to be central to an ongoing literary conversation

- Feminist sf as a particular feminist literary movement of the 70s and early 80s

- If we look at what has been considered SF and what has not in the 19th century, the genre could stand some redefining. Gothic romance and the supernatural should at least be included in definitions of "speculative fiction".

some ideas

maybe interesting to define feminist sf making a contrast between what´s "feminist sf" and what´s "women writting sf". i don´t think those things are the same.

i was thinking of writting something about feminist sf as thought experiments of alternatives to or disruptions of patriarchal situations.

and maybe we can do here a list of quotations about feminist sf, like that of Donna Haraway, who writes in her cyborg manifesto that feminists writting sf are “our storytellers exploring what it means to be embodied in high-tech worlds”

Quotes is a great idea - we should do it for sure.

And absolutely we need distinction b/w women writing sf and feminist sf - i especially like the "disruptions" idea as an elaboration of feminist sf.