On Mon, 28 Apr 1997 09:14:32 -0700 Lorie G Sauble-otto wrote:
> From: Lorie G Sauble-otto <lorie@U.ARIZONA.EDU>
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 09:14:32 -0700
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Like Water for Chocolate
> To: FEMINISTSF@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU
>
> Let's be careful in a "feminist" discussion of SF--When we start in
with a
> discourse based on "hard science" it gets sticky and sexist. We
need to
> begin--as Many Many people, especially women, already have--to
realize the
> evolution of the genre--the traditionalist approach to genre is based
on a
> masculinist construct.
>
>
This sounds a little like the determinist argument that women are
gentle and men hard -- an argument used by both strands of
feminism and masculinism. I am not terribly keen on it. There were
women involved in the construction of "hard-sf" in the earliest days.
You can't after all, get much harder than Frankenstein.
Farah
>
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