Women, Science and Fiction

The Frankenstein Inheritance

D. Shaw (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

231 Seiten

2000
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-74158-0 (ISBN)

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Since Mary Shelley drew inspiration for Frankenstein from the scientific speculations to which she attended as a 'nearly silent listener' at the now famous chateau in Switzerland, many other women have been similarly motivated to produce works informed by scientific theory. Successive chapters trace the history of women's science fiction writing from the turn of the century to the early 1990s, analysing how women writers have utilised the genre to critique the ideology that informs what counts as scientific knowledge.

DEBRA SHAW is Lecturer in Twentieth Century English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of North London. She is a member of the British Science Fiction Association.

Acknowledgements Introduction: Women, Science and Fiction Herland: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Literature of the Beehive Swastika Night: Katherine Burdekin and The Psychology of Scapegoating No Woman Born: C.L. Moore's Dancing Cyborg Short in the Chest: Margaret St Clair and The Revenge of the Housewife Heroine Your Haploid Heart: James Tiptree Jr. and Patterns of Gender Amazons and Aliens: Feminist Separatism and The Future of Knowledge Body of Glass: Marge Piercy and Sex in Cyberspace Conclusion: The Frankenstein Inheritance Notes Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.9.2000
Zusatzinfo	X, 231 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-333-74158-7 / 0333741587
ISBN-13	978-0-333-74158-0 / 9780333741580
Zustand	Neuware