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Women, Science and Fiction

The Frankenstein Inheritance

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  • © 2000

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  1. Debra Benita Shaw
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Women, Science and Fiction

    • Debra Benita Shaw
    Pages 1-11

  3. Herland: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Literature of the Beehive

    • Debra Benita Shaw
    Pages 12-41

  4. Swastika Night: Katharine Burdekin and the Psychology of Scapegoating

    • Debra Benita Shaw
    Pages 42-64

  5. ‘No Woman Born’: C. L. Moore’s Dancing Cyborg

    • Debra Benita Shaw
    Pages 65-89

  6. ‘Short in the Chest’: Margaret St Clair and the Revenge of the Housewife Heroine

    • Debra Benita Shaw
    Pages 90-106

  7. ‘Your Haploid Heart’: James Tiptree Jr and Patterns of Gender

    • Debra Benita Shaw
    Pages 107-127

  8. Amazons and Aliens: Feminist Separatism and the Future of Knowledge

    • Debra Benita Shaw
    Pages 128-157

  9. Body of Glass: Marge Piercy and Sex in Cyberspace

    • Debra Benita Shaw
    Pages 158-177

  10. Conclusion: the Frankenstein Inheritance

    • Debra Benita Shaw
    Pages 178-183

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 184-231
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About this book

Since Mary Shelley drew inspiration for Frankenstein from the scientific speculations to which she attended as a 'nearly silent listener' at the now famous chateau in Switzerland, many other women have been similarly motivated to produce works informed by scientific theory. Successive chapters trace the history of women's science fiction writing from the turn of the century to the early 1990s, analysing how women writers have utilised the genre to critique the ideology that informs what counts as scientific knowledge.

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It has a number of strengths for scholars working in the area of science fiction and gender. It is highly readable... Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

About the author

DEBRA SHAW is Lecturer in Twentieth Century English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of North London. She is a member of the British Science Fiction Association.

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