Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction
Angels, Amazons, and Women
Seiten
2018
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-229-0 (ISBN)
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-229-0 (ISBN)
Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction reveals a lost history of women’s science fiction and shows how it was shaped by the work of Britain’s greatest scientist.
Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction provides the first detailed scholarly examination of women’s SF in the early magazine period before the Second World War. Tracing the tradition of women’s SF back to the 1600s, the author demonstrates how women such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Shelley drew critical attention to the colonial mindset of scientific masculinity, which was attached to scientific institutions that excluded women. In the late nineteenth century, Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection provided an impetus for a number of first-wave feminists to imagine Amazonian worlds where women control their own bodies, relationships and destinies. Patrick B. Sharp traces how these feminist visions of scientific femininity, Amazonian power and evolutionary progress proved influential on many women publishing in the SF magazines of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and presents a compelling picture of the emergence to prominence of feminist SF in the early twentieth century before vanishing until the 1960s.
Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction provides the first detailed scholarly examination of women’s SF in the early magazine period before the Second World War. Tracing the tradition of women’s SF back to the 1600s, the author demonstrates how women such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Shelley drew critical attention to the colonial mindset of scientific masculinity, which was attached to scientific institutions that excluded women. In the late nineteenth century, Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection provided an impetus for a number of first-wave feminists to imagine Amazonian worlds where women control their own bodies, relationships and destinies. Patrick B. Sharp traces how these feminist visions of scientific femininity, Amazonian power and evolutionary progress proved influential on many women publishing in the SF magazines of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and presents a compelling picture of the emergence to prominence of feminist SF in the early twentieth century before vanishing until the 1960s.
Patrick B. Sharp is Professor of Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture (2007), and co-editor of Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (2016).
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1Scientific Masculinity and its Discontents
2Charles Darwin, Gender and the Colonial Imagination
3Evolution’s Amazons: Colonialism, Captivity and Liberation in Feminist Science Fiction
4Women with Wings: Feminism, Evolution and the Rise of Magazine Science Fiction
5Darwinian Feminism and the Changing Field of Women’s Science Fiction
Works Cited
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.10.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | New Dimensions in Science Fiction |
Zusatzinfo | No |
Verlagsort | Wales |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78683-229-1 / 1786832291 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78683-229-0 / 9781786832290 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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