This week, I was really struck by the idea of re-examining published information, especially self-published information. In both Ursula K. Le Guin's "Is Gender Necessary? Redux" (1976/1987) and Anne Fausto-Sterling's "The Five Sexes, Revisited" (2000), the authors return to their previous works to re-evaluate their conclusions in a modern context. Le Guin directly revises her… Continue reading Revising Yourself
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 