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Native Tongue is a feminist science fiction novel by American writer Suzette Haden Elgin, the first book in her series of the same name.The trilogy is centered in a future dystopian American society where the 19th Amendment was repealed in 1991 [1] and women have been stripped of civil rights.
The role of women in speculative fiction has changed a great deal since the early to mid-20th century. There are several aspects to women's roles, including their participation as authors of speculative fiction and their role in science fiction fandom. Regarding authorship, in 1948, 10–15% of science fiction writers were female.
Gender has been an important theme explored in speculative fiction.The genres that make up speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, supernatural fiction, horror, superhero fiction, science fantasy and related genres (utopian and dystopian fiction), have always offered the opportunity for writers to explore social conventions, including gender, gender roles, and beliefs about gender.
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She was a communications professor at Bloomsburg University from 1981 to 2006, and is known for her 1976 essay, "A Feminist Critique of Science Fiction". Early life and education [ edit ]
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There is a long tradition of female-only places in literature and mythology, starting with the Amazons and continuing into some examples of feminist utopias.In speculative fiction, women-only worlds have been imagined to come about, among other approaches, by the action of disease that wipes out men, along with the development of technological or mystical method that allow women to reproduce ...
Combining feminist ideals with utopian visions of a future society based on principles of community and equality, Piercy imagined a post-apocalyptic world that established Woman on the Edge of Time as an early feminist innovation in the traditionally male genre of dystopian fiction. Depictions of sexuality and relations between the genders were ...