I initially approached reading Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818) with some confusion as to what feminist themes might be present. I remembered the novel from high school and from my recollection there were few if any important female characters. As I began reading and encountered descriptions of Elizabeth Lavenza and Caroline Beaufort, I was… Continue reading Frankenstein (Volumes I & II)
I found A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century by Donna Haraway (1985) interesting but challenging to decipher. Haraway uses many metaphors which can be powerful but also serve to obfuscate her point during an initial examination. However, I did find her discussion of affinity versus identity in the section "Fractured Identities"… Continue reading A Cyborg Manifesto
Ask most people on the street to define science fiction and they might say "Something like Star Trek or The War of the Worlds." I would have probably said something similar until I read On the Origin of Species: Mary Shelley by Brian W. Aldiss with David Wingrove (1986). It was then that I thought deeply on the components which form… Continue reading On the Origin of Species: Mary Shelley
Feminist Science Fictions 