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(2017
premidterm assignment) Model Student Pre-midterm answers 2017 (Index) Essay 2: Propose topic for research and reading essay on personal / professional topic of your choice |
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Laura Wilson
Women
in SF
For my Research and Reading Essay I would like to explore the role of
women in literature of the future, or more accurately, the lack of strong female
characters. Why so few leading ladies, and what does that say about a genre that
is supposedly progressive? Is it progressive? Female protagonists seem much more
prevalent in young adult dystopian fiction, and in graphic novels, but are hard
to come by in regular novels and stories. I’d like to look into the history of
women in SF, and explore some of the reasons why they are lacking, if indeed
that is the case.
Out of the stories we have read so far I’d like to look at Lauren in
Parable of the Sower and the representation of Alice and June in Stone
Lives, though I am looking forward to reading The Time Machine. I
would like to look into any existing scholarly articles on the topic, and find
some examples of stories from both sides of my argument. Generally I’d like to
limit my search to the last hundred years or so, but it might be interesting to
look at the representation of Eve in Genesis and see if that evolved into
a general misrepresentation of women in SF, not just the creation/apocalypse
narrative.
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