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WOMN2205: Self.Net Identity in the Digital Age
WOMN2205: Self.Net Identity in the Digital Age
If science fiction is a genre that imagines our future, what happens to gender and race?
1. Hollinger, Veronica, “(Re)reading Queerly: Science Fiction, Feminism, and the Defamiliarisation of Gender”, Science Fiction Studies, Mar 1999, Vol 26 Issue 1, p 23-40
Hollinger explores the intersection between queer theory and feminist theory within the science fiction genre. She credits science fiction with, despite being an overwhelmingly straight imaginative discourse, challenging the technologies of compulsory heterosexuality.
2. Unger, Rhoda, “Science Fictive Visions: A Feminist Psychologist’s View”, Feminism and Psychology, 2009 19:113
Unger, a science fiction fan herself, discusses the potential of science fiction to challenge and recreate female roles and identity. She notes that female characters within science fiction narrative tend to be stronger and more independent than their counterparts within other genres, although they do often need rescuing from men. She also notes that science fictions allows male characters to be rely upon their intellect, rather than their physical strength, to demonstrate their power.
3. Edwards, Kim, “Defying Androgyny and Bending Gender: The Matrix”, Screen Education Winter 2008, Issue 50, p 117-122
Edwards explores the androgyny within popular film The Matrix (1999), discussing the way characterisation challenged traditional gender roles and sexuality. As Unger touched upon in her article, Edwards found that science fiction allows for the re-imagining of masculinity, being measured by intelligence rather than physical strength.
4. Burns, Lawrence, “Race, Science and a Novel: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue”, Developing World Bioethics, Dec 2008, Vol 8 Issue 3, p 226-234
This article examines the science fiction novel Racists by Kunal Basu (2006), which details a scientific experiment involving the isolation of one white and one black infant as a way of staging a contest in a “natural laboratory”. The novel is a critique of the inherent desire science to emphasise biological differences between races and the ramifications of acting upon that desire. It paints the relationship between race relations and science fiction in a negative light.
5. Eng, Dinah, “Multicultural Casting Thrives in Sci-Fi Shows”, Television Week, January 2008, Vol 27 Issue 31, p 12-12
Eng discusses the way that the multicultural casting of popular science fiction television show Star Trek pre-empted the modernisation of race relations in the United States in the 1960s. The futurism inherent in the science fiction genre forces writers to imagine the future of race relations and, therefore, challenge their pre-existing state.
1. Hollinger, Veronica, “(Re)reading Queerly: Science Fiction, Feminism, and the Defamiliarisation of Gender”, Science Fiction Studies, Mar 1999, Vol 26 Issue 1, p 23-40
Hollinger explores the intersection between queer theory and feminist theory within the science fiction genre. She credits science fiction with, despite being an overwhelmingly straight imaginative discourse, challenging the technologies of compulsory heterosexuality.
2. Unger, Rhoda, “Science Fictive Visions: A Feminist Psychologist’s View”, Feminism and Psychology, 2009 19:113
Unger, a science fiction fan herself, discusses the potential of science fiction to challenge and recreate female roles and identity. She notes that female characters within science fiction narrative tend to be stronger and more independent than their counterparts within other genres, although they do often need rescuing from men. She also notes that science fictions allows male characters to be rely upon their intellect, rather than their physical strength, to demonstrate their power.
3. Edwards, Kim, “Defying Androgyny and Bending Gender: The Matrix”, Screen Education Winter 2008, Issue 50, p 117-122
Edwards explores the androgyny within popular film The Matrix (1999), discussing the way characterisation challenged traditional gender roles and sexuality. As Unger touched upon in her article, Edwards found that science fiction allows for the re-imagining of masculinity, being measured by intelligence rather than physical strength.
4. Burns, Lawrence, “Race, Science and a Novel: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue”, Developing World Bioethics, Dec 2008, Vol 8 Issue 3, p 226-234
This article examines the science fiction novel Racists by Kunal Basu (2006), which details a scientific experiment involving the isolation of one white and one black infant as a way of staging a contest in a “natural laboratory”. The novel is a critique of the inherent desire science to emphasise biological differences between races and the ramifications of acting upon that desire. It paints the relationship between race relations and science fiction in a negative light.
5. Eng, Dinah, “Multicultural Casting Thrives in Sci-Fi Shows”, Television Week, January 2008, Vol 27 Issue 31, p 12-12
Eng discusses the way that the multicultural casting of popular science fiction television show Star Trek pre-empted the modernisation of race relations in the United States in the 1960s. The futurism inherent in the science fiction genre forces writers to imagine the future of race relations and, therefore, challenge their pre-existing state.
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