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Philippy, Jana 2018

From Hermaphroditic Humanoids to Female Cyborgs: Feminism and Gender in Late Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Literature

Master thesis | Literary Studies (MA)

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Focusing on second-wave feminism, this thesis explores the representation of gender and the expression of the predominant feminist ideas in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969),...Show moreFocusing on second-wave feminism, this thesis explores the representation of gender and the expression of the predominant feminist ideas in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (1975) and Pamela Sargent’s The Shore of Women (1986).Show less