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A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction

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This fascinating study is the first to examine the history of gender and science fiction and the first to discuss science fiction pulp magazines' images of women, as well as postmodernism and feminist science fiction. Robin Roberts begins with Shelley's Frankenstein, in which a female alien appears, and continues through H. G. Wells, the 1950s pulp science fiction magazines, Doris Lessing and feminist utopias, and the new generation of science fiction writers, including Joan Vinge, Sheila Finch, Vonda McIntyre, Ursula Le ...

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A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction 1993, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252062841

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