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Sengupta, Sohini. "Empowering Girlhood Journeys: Feminist Mythic Revision in Contemporary Indian Diaspora Children’s Fiction." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 7, no. 3 (2022): 248–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.73.37.

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There had been relatively little interest in a narrative of female individuation within mythology. Revisionist myths and legends in contemporary literaturehave thus addressed issues of women’s identity and autonomy while redesigningthe gendered spaces in these cultural narratives. The need for alternative mobility arcs within the cultural imaginary was also recognized for adolescent girls in their quest for subjectivity.This paper thus explores two works of children’s fiction, viz. Sayantani Dasgupta’s Game of Stars(2019) from the Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond series and Roshani Chokshi’s Aru Shah and the End of Time (2018) as coming-of-age immigrant narratives where young girls undergo heroic adventures restructuringIndian mythology and Bengali folktales. Dasgupta’s Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond series intertwines intergalactic science and Bengali folktales, mostly from the Thakumar Jhuli (1907), meshing different fairy tale characters aidingthe adolescent female protagonist Kiranmala, who isa neotericgutsy counterpart of the warrior princess in Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder's fairy tale collection.At the same time, Roshani Chokshi’s Aru Shah fantasy adventure series celebrates the Indian heritage of Hindu mythology (particularly the Mahabharata) in the diaspora, while empowering young immigrant girls to imagine and undertake non-normative feminist voyages.

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Higgins, Marc, Blue Mahy, Rouhollah Aghasaleh, and Patrick Enderle. "Patchworking Response-ability in Science and Technology Education." Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology 10, no. 2-3 (December 30, 2019): 356–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.7577/rerm.3683.

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Within science and technology education, concepts of justice, in/equity, and ethics within science education are simultaneously ubiquitous, necessary, yet un(der)theorized. Consequently, the potential for reproducing and reifying systems of power remains ever present. In response, there is a recent but growing movement within science and technology education that follows the call by Kayumova and colleagues (2019) to move “from empowerment to response-ability.” It is a call to collectively organize, reconfigure, and reimagine science and technology education by taking seriously critiques of Western modern science and technology from its co-constitutive exteriority (e.g., feminist critiques). Herein, we pursue the (re)opening of responsiveness with/in methodology by juxtaposing differential, partial, and situated accounts of response-ability: de/colonizing the Anthropocene in science teacher education in Canada (Higgins); speculative fiction at the science-ethics nexus in secondary schooling in Australia (Mahy); and a reciprocal model for teaching and learning computational competencies with Latinx youth in the US (Aghasaleh and Enderle).

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Hay, George. "Feminist science fiction." Science and Public Policy 13, no. 4 (August 1986): 246–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/spp/13.4.246.

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Roberts, Robin. "It’s Still Science Fiction: Strategies of Feminist Science Fiction Criticism." Extrapolation 36, no. 3 (October 1995): 184–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.1995.36.3.184.

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Sharma, Ms Shikha. "Doris Lessing’s Science Fiction." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 7 (July 27, 2020): 167–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i7.10673.

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Doris Lessing, the Nobel Laureate (1919-2007), a British novelist, poet, a writer of epic scope, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She was the “most fearless woman novelist in the world, unabashed ex-communist and uncompromising feminist”. Doris has earned the great reputation as a distinguished and outstanding writer. She raised local and private problems of England in post-war period with emphasis on man-woman relationship, feminist movement, welfare state, socio-economic and political ethos, population explosion, terrorism and social conflicts in her novels.

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Farmer, Lesley S. J. "Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia." Reference Reviews 32, no. 2 (February 19, 2018): 14–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rr-01-2018-0004.

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Hollinger, Veronica. "Feminist Science Fiction: Breaking Up the Subject." Extrapolation 31, no. 3 (October 1990): 229–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.1990.31.3.229.

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DeRose, Maria. "Redefining Women's Power Through Feminist Science Fiction." Extrapolation 46, no. 1 (January 2005): 66–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.2005.46.1.8.

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Ang, Ien. "Popular Fiction and Feminist Cultural Politics." Theory, Culture & Society 4, no. 4 (November 1987): 651–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026327687004004005.

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Cazenave, Odile, and Donald R. Wehrs. "African Feminist Fiction and Indigenous Values." International Journal of African Historical Studies 34, no. 2 (2001): 490. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3097539.

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Kaplan, Gisela. "Feminist Methodology Is It Fact or Fiction?" Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique 46, no. 1 (March 1995): 88–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/075910639504600107.

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Donahoo, Robert, and Marleen S. Barr. "Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond." American Literature 66, no. 4 (December 1994): 866. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927734.

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Curtis, Claire P. "Rehabilitating utopia: Feminist science fiction and finding the ideal." Contemporary Justice Review 8, no. 2 (June 2005): 147–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10282580500082507.

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Zaki, Hoda M. "Alien to femininity: Speculative fiction and feminist theory." Women's Studies International Forum 13, no. 3 (January 1990): 277–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-5395(90)90018-s.

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Merrick, Helen. "Science stories, life stories: Engaging the sciences through feminist science fiction." Women's Studies International Forum 33, no. 2 (March 2010): 141–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2009.12.002.

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Tongue, Zoe. "Reproductive Justice: The Final (Feminist) Frontier." Law, Technology and Humans 4, no. 2 (November 14, 2022): 95–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/lthj.2468.

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From Gattaca to Star Trek, problematic tropes surrounding reproduction can easily be found in works of mainstream science fiction. Such tropes uphold conservative anxieties around reproductive technologies, abortion, and pregnancy, and these works thus become influential in legal, ethical, and policy discussions on these issues. In contrast, feminist science fiction attempts to expose reproductive injustice, both current and future, through portrayals of prototype social-legal contexts. In this article, I argue that feminist science fiction works are, therefore, of importance for feminist legal theory as they can help us imagine a radically transformed future for reproduction. I consider the work of Octavia Butler and Laura Lam as examples of reproductive dystopia highlighting current, past, and potential future socio-legal injustices. These feminist works call for change grounded in the lived experiences of women and people capable of becoming pregnant.

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Farrell, Jennifer Kelso. "Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century." Journal of Popular Culture 40, no. 4 (August 2007): 740–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00440.x.

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Mitchell, Claudia. "Feminist Activism against Rape Culture." Girlhood Studies 14, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): v—vi. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2021.140101.

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I met Roxanne Harde, the guest editor of this Special Issue, at the Second International Girls Studies Association conference in 2019 when I attended the panel discussion, “Representations of Rape in Young Adult Fiction.” I recall Roxanne’s passion vividly and, indeed, the enthusiasm of all three presenters as they discussed a variety of texts in superb presentations that aligned well with Ann Smith’s notion of feminism in action in their seeing “a fictional text not only as a literary investigation into issues of concern to its author but also as the site of educational research” (2000: 245). Their papers pointed to the ways in which the analysis of how rape culture is treated in Young Adult (YA) literature, film, and the print media can take scholars and activists so much further into the issues, and, at the same time, noted the ways in which rape culture in all its manifestations as a global phenomenon has inevitably led to its becoming an everyday topic of YA fiction.

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Gölz, Olmo. "Heroes and the many: Typological reflections on the collective appeal of the heroic. Revolutionary Iran and its implications." Thesis Eleven 165, no. 1 (July 27, 2021): 53–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07255136211033168.

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The heroic figure is a human fiction of the wholly singular. In the hero, discourses about ideals and exemplariness, extra-ordinariness and exceptionalness, agonality, transgressivity, or good and evil become condensed into a single individual. Thus, the hero is the opposite of the masses. As it is argued in this article, the answer to the question of what distinguishes a hero lies in the supererogatory moment, the reference to the hero’s quality of more than can be expected: the heroic figure does more than he or she has to, more than duty requires of an ordinary person, and this is the reason they are heroized. However, this also points to a dialectic moment of the heroic in which the opposition between the hero and the many seems to be suspended. Following Niklas Luhmann, the hero represents the paradox of conformity through deviance, because through the example of their abnormality they produce in others a desire to imitate them. In the end, there is a collective appeal of the heroic that affects even the conceptual complement of the hero: the crowd which is characterized by the disappearance of the individual within it. Inspired by Luhmann’s sociological reflections on the heroic as well as Elias Canetti’s anthropological perspectives on the phenomena of the crowd, this article traces the rhetoric of the hero along its path from the singular to the plural. Against the backdrop of the analysis of the heroic in revolutionary Iran, a generalizable typology is proposed that distinguishes between the hero, the collective of heroes, the heroic collective, and collective heroism. This order reflects a progression that is analogous to the conjunction of the one and the many, moving qualitatively from the distinct figure of the hero to the indistinguishable masses.

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Rogan, Alcena Madeline Davis. "Alien Sex Acts in Feminist Science Fiction: Heuristic Models for Thinking a Feminist Future of Desire." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (May 2004): 442–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20226.

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Even at their most bizarre, representations of alien sex are bound to reinscribe the terms of human desire. Thus there can be no representation of an alien sex act that is radically alien. However, for certain writers, this representational impasse provides an occasion for thinking through the limits of fictional and feminist representation. Through a reading of Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères, Samuel Delany's Trouble on Triton and Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand, and Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve, I explore how alien sex is represented not only or even primarily in literal terms but also as an act that takes place in a fictional discursive milieu that critiques contemporary human sexual relations. I also describe how these writers' creative imaginings of alien sex function as a dialectical corollary to their theoretical investigations into the limits of representation.

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Sharma, Kritika. "What If Feminist Judgments Were Written on Earth 616? A Tale of Feminism and Science Fiction." Law, Technology and Humans 4, no. 2 (November 14, 2022): 81–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/lthj.2496.

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For at least three reasons, Marvel’s 2021 TV adaptation of its 1977 What If? series of comics seemed all too familiar to feminist legal scholars as a methodological exercise in alternative outcomes. This paper explores these reasons. It uses the specific example of the 1977 comics and the project on Feminist Judgments in International Law to argue that a focus on this interrelation could prove to be fruitful from a methodological perspective. Therefore, this paper highlights the intersection between these specific areas of science fiction and (international) feminist legal thought through their concomitant emphasis on contingency, inter-temporality and causality. Based on this, the paper analyses the nature of this correlation or cohesion and suggests that it offers a lens through which feminist legal tools can be viewed and further enhanced.

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Stocker, Laura J. "Songs of Our Future: Feminist Representation of Technology in Science Fiction." Media Information Australia 54, no. 1 (November 1989): 49–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x8905400112.

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HOUGHTON, RUTH, and AOIFE O’DONOGHUE. "‘Ourworld’: A feminist approach to global constitutionalism." Global Constitutionalism 9, no. 1 (October 16, 2019): 38–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2045381719000273.

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Abstract:Global constitutionalism offers a utopian picture of the future of international law. Its advocates suggest a governance system is emergent that will fill the gaps in legitimacy, democracy and the rule of law present in international law. Speculation about the future of international law is shaped, partly at least, by global constitutionalism aspiring to create a better global legal order, by filling these legitimacy gaps with both normative and procedural constitutionalism. But this raises the question ‘better for whom’? Feminist theory has challenged the foundations of both international law and constitutionalism; demonstrating that the design of normative structures accommodates and sustains prevailing patriarchal forms that leave little room for alternative accounts or voices. Both international and constitutional law’s structures support the status quo and are resistant to critical and feminist voices. The question is whether it is possible for constitutionalism to change international law in ways that will open it up to alternate possibilities. Building on a seven-point manifesto of feminist constitutionalism, previously proffered by the authors, which inculcated feminist concerns into global constitutionalism, this article offers an alternative starting point: feminist science fiction. Feminist utopian tracts such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and Ursula K Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness offer valuable lessons for global constitutionalist discourses. The article uses feminist utopias in science fiction to better understand how to dismantle hierarchical structures, how to build feminist societies, and how to find approaches to governance not predicated on patriarchy. It does so by focusing on feminist alternatives for constructing communities, for understanding constituent power and constituent moments, and dismantling manifestations of the public/private divide. This article demonstrates that reading feminist utopian science fiction facilitates the reimagining of global constitutionalism.

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CLARK, ROGER, and HEIDI KULKIN. "Toward a Multicultural Feminist Perspective on Fiction for Young Adults." Youth & Society 27, no. 3 (March 1996): 291–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118x96027003002.

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Djeddai Imen, Djeddai Imen. "The Representation of Feminist Ideology in the Emirati Science Fiction in Arabic." Science and Knowledge Horizons Journal 2, no. 02 (October 11, 2022): 193–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.34118/jskp.v2i02.2565.

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In comparison to Western science fiction, there is a lack in the publication of science fiction novels in Arabic. The absence of Arab women characters leads Nora Al Noman, an author from the United Arab Emirates, to write her novel Ajwan. The writer shows the significant role of this genre in dealing with issues related to Arab women. This article aims to examine the characterization of the major female lead, Ajwan, in an alternative world and how she represents the feminist ideas. It focuses on the reaction of the protagonist to the concept of gender in a patriarchal society. Feminism is used as a theoretical framework to analyze the subversion of gender roles. In a post-apocalyptic world, Ajwan, who belongs to the Havaiki, experiences otherness in Al Zafir, However, she challenges marginalization and misogynist thought. Consequently, the major female lead becomes the empowered woman in her Arab community

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Kim, Yoojin. "A Feminist Study of Science Fiction (SF) for Children and Young Adults." Korea Association of Literature for Children and Young Adlult 22 (June 30, 2018): 203–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24993/jklcy.2018.06.22.203.

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안선영. "Flee from Sex and Gender: Utopias in Second-Wave Feminist Science Fiction." Feminist Studies in English Literature 24, no. 3 (December 2016): 9–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.15796/fsel.2016.24.3.001.

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Bungaro, Monica. "Male Feminist Fiction: Literary Subversions of a Gender-Biased Script." Matatu 29-30, no. 1 (June 1, 2005): 47–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-029030005.

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Baccolini, Raffaella. "The Persistence of Hope in Dystopian Science Fiction." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (May 2004): 518–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20587.

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It is widely accepted todaythat, whenever we receive or produce culture, we do so from a certain position and that such location influences how we theorize about and read the world. Because I am an Italian trained in the United States (specializing in American modernism) in the 1980s, my reading of science fiction has been shaped by my cultural and biographical circumstances as well as by my geography. It is a hybrid approach, combining these circumstances primarily with an interest in feminist theory and in writing by women. From the very beginning I have foregrounded issues of genre writing as they intersect with gender and the deconstruction of high and low culture. Such an approach, however, must also come to terms with the political and cultural circumstances that characterize this turn of the century.

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Boaz, Cynthia. "How Speculative Fiction Can Teach about Gender and Power in International Politics: A Pedagogical Overview." International Studies Perspectives 21, no. 3 (October 10, 2019): 240–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekz020.

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Abstract Fictional universes can be treated as discrete units of analysis in which we see the operation of international relations theory. This article discusses insights gleaned from a course created at Sonoma State University called “Gender and Geopolitics in Science Fiction and Fantasy,” in which feminist theory and international relations approaches are integrated, and science fiction and fantasy texts serve as the mechanism through which to examine the key themes and questions. This article provides an overview of the pedagogy to highlight the usefulness of speculative fiction in teaching. Each of the fictional universes is treated as a separate system where gender and political dynamics manifest in ways that observers of international relations will recognize. The core texts are Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, Jessica Jones, Star Trek, Misfits, and Watchmen. The major theories and approaches explored here have implications for gender studies and feminist theory, the concepts of metaphor and allegory, and game theory.

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van der Westhuizen, Christi. "(Un)sung Heroines." Matatu 50, no. 2 (February 13, 2020): 258–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05002004.

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Abstract In the South African War (1899–1902), Boer women emerged as more heroic than their men folk. When Boer leaders succumbed to a truce, much discursive work ensued to domesticate Boer women anew in the face of their recalcitrance in accepting a peace deal with the British. But attempts to re-feminise Boer women and elevate Boer men to their ‘rightful’ position as patriarchs faltered in the topsy-turvy after the war. The figure of the volksmoeder, or mother of the nation, provided a nodal category that combined feminine care for the family and the volk, or fledgling Afrikaner nation, but the heroic narrative was increasingly displaced by the symbol of self-sacrificial, silent and passive motherhood, thereby obscuring women’s political activism. Today, a re-remembering of volksmoeder heroism, combined with feminist politics based on the democratic-era Constitution, opens up possibilities of Afrikaners breaking out of their white exclusivism to join the nascent democratic South African nation.

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Briedik, Adam. "A postcolonial feminist dystopia: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale." Ars Aeterna 13, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 57–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2021-0004.

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Abstract Postcolonial criticism offers a radically new platform for the interpretation of science fiction texts. Mostly preoccupied with the themes of alien other and interstellar colonization, the genre of sci-fi breaths with colonial discourse and postcolonial tropes and imagery. Although Margaret Atwood rejects the label of science fiction writer, her dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) explores similar ethical concerns to the anti-conquest narratives of postcolonial authors. Atwood’s identification of Canadian identity as a victim of the former British Empire is challenged by her introduction of a female character rejecting their postcolonial subjugated identity in a patriarchal society. Her variation on dystopian concerns is motivated by sexuality, and her characters are reduced to objects of colonial desire with no agency. The protagonist, Offred, endures double colonization from the feminist perspective; yet, in terms of postcolonial criticism, Attwood’s character of Offred is allowed to reconstruct her subaltern identity through her fragmented narration of the past and speak in an authoritative voice. The orality of her narration only confirms the predisposition of the text to interpretation in the same terms as postcolonial fiction.

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Ogunyemi, Folabomi L. "Trauma and Empowerment in Tina McElroy Ansa’s Ugly Ways." Journal of Black Studies 52, no. 3 (January 11, 2021): 331–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934720986424.

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Ugly Ways (1993) by Tina McElroy Ansa has been overlooked as a significant contribution to African American feminist literary fiction. This paper performs a close reading examining the novel’s thematic intersection of Black feminist theory and trauma theory. Part one of this essay defines Black feminist theory and outlines key concepts of Black feminist thought. Parts two and three focus on the protagonist, Esther “Mudear” Lovejoy, and analyze her “change” through the lenses of Black feminist theory and trauma theory, respectively, highlighting the ways in which Ugly Ways articulates a conception of Black womanhood defined in equal parts by empowerment and psychic pain. Part four argues that Black feminist theory and trauma theory are not just compatible, but consonant. Ultimately, Ugly Ways depicts African American women as complex human subjects and moves beyond conventional historical, literary, and popular representations.

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Krause, Andrea J. "Feminism and Science Fiction, and: Contemporary Women's Fiction: Narrative Practice and Feminist Theory (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 36, no. 2 (1990): 311–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0795.

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Brewer, Mária Minich. "Review of: Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, and: Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and Postmodernism." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 42, no. 1 (1996): 214–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0014.

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Köseoğlu, Berna. "The Change in the Reflection of Gender Roles from Proto-Science Fiction to Science Fiction with the Rise of Feminism: Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World and Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 10, no. 6 (November 30, 2021): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.10n.6p.16.

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Before the rise of feminism, women were oppressed in the field of literature, particularly in science fiction. Despite this prejudice, Margaret Cavendish played a very important role in producing proto-science fiction with her utopian fiction, A Description of a New World Called the Blazing World, though gender problem can still be observed in the work. After the rise of feminism, with Mary Robinette Kowal’s science fiction, The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel, female characters, who are more active in science and technology, are depicted, even if these women still struggle with patriarchal values in a different context. Therefore, the aim of this article is to compare and contrast The Blazing World and The Calculating Stars by discussing the ways these two female writers try to achieve destroying the gender-based stereotypical roles in the field of science and technology. Consequently, what will be stressed is the change in the portrayal of gender roles within the transition period from proto-science fiction to science fiction, therefore it will be emphasized that proto-science fiction written before the feminist movement cannot overcome gender inequality in science and technology, whereas science fiction produced after feminism can break the gender-based barriers in these fields.

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Würrer, Stefan. "A Short History of Ambivalence Toward the Feminist Utopia in Japanese Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 49, no. 1 (2022): 53–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2022.0005.

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Wiemer, Annegret J. "Foreign l(anguish), mother tongue: Concepts of language in contemporary feminist science fiction." Women's Studies 14, no. 2 (August 1987): 163–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.1987.9978694.

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Silova, Iveta. "The Power of Radical Thought Experiments: Reading Feminist Science Fiction in Comparative Education." Comparative Education Review 64, no. 1 (February 2020): 147–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/706850.

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Tietjen, Jeanie. "Durchfall, Auschwitz’s Unwritten Story: Filth and Excremental Violence in Tadeusz Borowski’s Postwar Fiction." Holocaust and Genocide Studies 34, no. 3 (2020): 409–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcaa057.

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Abstract As an author central to postwar literature on the concentration and death camp experience, Tadeusz Borowski chose to depict the relatively taboo subject of excremental violence. Borowski’s documentary fiction depicted an aspect of history that was, especially in 1946 after his own incarceration and survival, both raw and controversial. Writing in Polish as part of a collective work, Borowski was intent on speaking in his native language to a shattered Polish nation. This article analyzes how Borowski drew attention to human rights violations by writing about excremental violence. It further examines how Borowski eschewed oversimplified postwar categories of perpetrators, victims, and resisters. Instead, drawing upon his own experiences in Auschwitz, Dautmergen, and Dachau, his works articulate the powerlessness of those in the camps and the dehumanizing conditions they faced, thus challenging any misleading narratives regarding heroic agency.

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Hashem, Noor. "Muslim American Speculative Fiction: Figuring feminist epistemologies, religious histories, and genre traditions." Muslim World 111, no. 2 (May 2021): 167–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/muwo.12379.

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Gilarek, Anna. "Marginalization of “the Other”: Gender Discrimination in Dystopian Visions by Feminist Science Fiction Authors." Text Matters, no. 2 (December 4, 2012): 221–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10231-012-0066-3.

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In patriarchy women are frequently perceived as “the other” and as such they are subject to discrimination and marginalization. The androcentric character of patriarchy inherently confines women to the fringes of society. Undeniably, this was the case in Western culture throughout most of the twentieth century, before the social transformation triggered by the feminist movement enabled women to access spheres previously unavailable to them. Feminist science fiction of the 1970s, like feminism, attempted to challenge the patriarchal status quo in which gender-based discrimination against women was the norm. Thus, authors expressed, in a fictionalized form, the same issues that constituted the primary concerns of feminism in its second wave. As feminist science fiction is an imaginative genre, the critique of the abuses of the twentieth-century patriarchy is usually developed in defamiliarized, unreal settings. Consequently, current problems are recontextualized, a technique which is meant to give the reader a new perspective on certain aspects of life they might otherwise take for granted, such as the inadequacies of patriarchy and women’s marginality in society. Yet there are authors who consider the real world dystopian enough to be used as a setting for their novels. This is the case with Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy and The Female Man by Joanna Russ. Both texts split the narrative into a science fictional and a realistic strand so as to contrast the contemporary world with utopian and dystopian alternatives. Both texts are largely politicized as they expose and challenge the marginalized status of women in the American society of the 1970s. They explore the process of constructing marginalized identities, as well as the forms that marginalization takes in the society. Most importantly, they indicate the necessity of decisive steps being taken to improve the situation.

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Basu, Srimati. "The Bleeding Edge: Resistance as Strength and Paralysis." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 7, no. 2 (September 2000): 185–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097152150000700203.

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The study of feminism as a mark of feminist agency is examined across a range of feminist schol arship, followed by reflections on the concluding scene of Ashapurna Devi's novel in Bangla, Pratham Pratisruti, and ends with some conclusions based upon ethnographic work on Indian women and inheritance. The explorations of different sites of fiction and ethnography indicate that individual acts of women's resistance should be kept separate from the systemic changes that organised movements seek to effect.

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Afanasov, Nikolai B. "Cyberfeminism as Science Fiction. Drawn in Japan." Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies 4, no. 1 (March 21, 2022): 71–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v4i1.248.

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In the 80’s representatives of the second wave feminist theory nurtured hopes that new technologies would become an effective instrument of liberating from binary oppositions of patriarchal culture. Donna Haraway saw the potential of social transformations in cybernetic technologies. The fusion of biological, mechanical and cybernetic was to have led to the emergence of new cyborg subjectivity. It should be capable of creating its own culture as well as a new world. Later this narrative would be widely criticized, but in this optimistic form it greatly affected science fiction of the period. The author makes an attempt to present the theoretical components of cyberfeminism as science fiction that engenders cognitive estrangement. Catchy images of cyborgs were born in the performative framework of cyberfeminist theory and popular culture. They continue to affect imagination to the present day. Japanese animation stood at the vanguard of this cultural process. The article considers the visions drawn in Japan as a narrative that represents historical evolution of cyberfeminism. The end of anime’s “golden age” meant the end of a thorough work with cyberfeminism in the language of popular culture. The findings of the study reveal that cyberfeminism is a part of general theory that has subsequently become a part of global discourse of a new posthuman subject. The article emphasises the other part of the phenomenon – cyberfeminist practice – that has successfully adapted to the modern world.

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Jackson, J. Kasi. "Companion Species and Model Systems." Humanimalia 9, no. 1 (September 22, 2017): 88–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9615.

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Alice Sheldon provided perhaps the earliest call for a feminist approach to research using model organisms. Her work was grounded in ongoing debates about theoretical models and methodological issues, specifically the choice of model organisms and the interpretations of data the models produced. When she became convinced that the laboratory conditions of her day did not permit her to practice feminist science, she turned to feminist science fiction to reimagine them. This piece shows how Sheldon’s experiences as a research scientist in experimental psychology influenced her science fiction writing and how she used that writing as a platform within which to think through the key scientific concerns in her specialty, as well as their connection to the feminist and environmental movements of her day. I examine Sheldon’s resistance to the dominance of reductionism and her desire to develop non-reductionist methods of research on human and non-human animals. She rejected the dominant paradigms of her contemporary research field, but believed in the possibility of science to address oppression and promote feminism, which many of her contemporaries and some recent critics see as incompatible. I argue that she believed that a different kind of science — a contextualized, non-reductionist biology — could solve gender oppression and environmental degradation, harms she saw as linked.

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Edkins, Jenny. "Novel writing in international relations: Openings for a creative practice." Security Dialogue 44, no. 4 (July 23, 2013): 281–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010613491304.

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Prompted by Elizabeth Dauphinee’s The Politics of Exile, the article explores the political potential of novel ways of writing in international relations. It begins by examining attempts to distinguish between narrative writing and academic writing, fiction and non-fiction, and to give an account of what narrative might be and how it might work. It argues that although distinctions between narrative writing and academic writing cannot hold, there are nevertheless ways of judging the practical political effects that writing can produce. It briefly examines feminist, postcolonial and other international relations scholars who collect other people’s stories or tell their own, and points to an instructive body of work in fiction and literary non-fiction beyond the discipline. It argues that writing that disrupts linear forms of temporality and instead inhabits ‘trauma time’ can open the possibility of an aesthetic political practice, and suggests that we foster such a creative practice in international relations.

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Abdelbaky, Ashraf. "A Perfect World or an Oppressive World: A Critical Study of Utopia and Dystopia as Subgenres of Science Fiction." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 4, no. 3 (March 28, 2016): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v4i3.1201.

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In this article, I investigates the concept of utopia and dystopia in literature since the time of Plato and Thomas More and how it became a significant subgenre of science fiction. I present the kinds of utopia and its fundamental purposes as well as the different explanations for the term utopia and dystopia by numerous critics. I stress the function of science fiction as a literary tool to depict the grim picture and the weaknesses of current societies, dystopias, and to provide a warning for the future of these societies by presenting alternative peaceful societies; utopias. Therefore, I seek to investigate how utopian writings play a central role in uncovering the shortcomings of societies and presenting a formative criticism towards them. I also discuss how utopia and dystopia give women the chance to present their feminist demands using science fiction.

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Altrows, Aiyana. "Silence and the Regulation of Feminist Anger in Young Adult Rape Fiction." Girlhood Studies 12, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2019.120202.

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Bringing rape stories into popular discussion was a crucial success of the Second Wave Women’s Liberation movement. Popular culture is now inundated with rape stories. However, the repetitive scripts and schemas that dominate these are often informed by neoliberal individualism that is antithetical to feminism. The contradictions that characterize the tensions between feminism and neoliberalism in these texts are typically postfeminist, combining often inconsistent feminist rhetoric with neoliberal ideology. By examining the use of the silent victim script in young adult rape fiction, in this article I argue that most young adult rape fiction presents rape as an individual, pathological defect and a precondition to be managed by girls on an individual basis, rather than an act of violence committed against them.

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Sauble-Otto, Lorie, and Marleen S. Barr. "Future Females, the Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 57, no. 2 (2003): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1348407.

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KNIGHTS, VANESSA. "Taking a Leap Beyond Epistemological Boundaries: Spanish Fantasy/Science Fiction and Feminist Identity Politics." Paragraph 22, no. 1 (March 1999): 76–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.1999.22.1.76.

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