Ebook: Feminism and science fiction

This is a book about feminism and science fiction and the
conjuncture of the two. I want to explore the question of
whether science fiction, despite its preponderantly male bias,
offers a freedom to women writers, in terms of style as well as
content, that is not available in mainstream fiction . Further,
does it offer a means of fusing political concerns with the playful
creativity of the imagination?

What I hope to show overall is that the plasticity of science
fiction and its openness to other literary genres allow an
apparent contradiction, but one that is potentially of enormous
importance to contemporary women writers: it makes possible ,
and encourages (despite its colonization by male writers), the
inscription of women as subjects free from the constraints of
mundane fiction; and it also offers the possibility of interrogating
that very inscription, questioning the basis of gendered
subjectivity. I shall back up these ambitious claims for the
potential of the genre by detailed reference to the writing of the
many talented women who recognize and exploit its possibilities.