{"product_id":"where-no-man-has-gone-before-1","title":"Where No Man has Gone Before","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the academic establishment and the publishing industry?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are just some of the questions addressed by this collection of original essays by women writers, readers and critics of the genre. But the undoubted existence of a recent surge of women’s interest in science fiction is by no means the full story. From Mary Shelley onwards, women writers have played a central role in the shaping and reshaping of this genre, irrespective of its undeniably patriarchal image. Through a combination of essays on the work of writers such as Doris Lessing and Ursula Le Guin, with others on still-neglected writers such as Katherine Burdekin and C. L. Moore and a wealth of contemporaries including Suzette Elgin, Gwyneth Jones, Maureen Duffy and Josephine Saxton, this anthology takes a step towards redressing the balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps, above all, what this collection demonstrates is that science fiction remains as particularly well-suited to the exploration of woman as ‘alien’ or ‘other’ in our culture today, as it was with the publication of \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e in 1818.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54256945234264,"sku":"9780415752268","price":71.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415752268.jpg?v=1769569222","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/where-no-man-has-gone-before-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}