| 书目名称 | Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe | | 副标题 | Tracing Women’s Libe | | 编辑 | Kara Kennedy | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Focuses on female characters in the Dune series.Situates Herbert’s work within feminist science fiction.Engages with second-wave feminist theories particularly bodily agency | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book undertakes the first large-scale analysis of women’s agency in Frank Herbert’s six-book science fiction .Dune .series. Kara Kennedy explores how female characters in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood—from Jessica to Darwi Odrade—secure control and influence through five avenues of embodied agency: mind-body synergy, reproduction and motherhood, voices, education and memory, and sexuality. She also discusses constraints on their agency, tensions between individual and collective action, and comparisons with other characters including the Mentats, Bene Tleilaxu, and Honored Matres. The book engages with second-wave feminist theories and historical issues to highlight how the series anticipated and paralleled developments in the women’s liberation movement. In this context, it addresses issues regarding sexual difference and solidarity, as well as women’s demand to have control over their bodies. Kennedy concludes that the series should be acknowledged as a significant contribution to the genre as part of both New Wave and feminist science fiction. | | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | | 关键词 | Science Fiction; Literature, Gender and Sexuality; second-wave feminism; Gender and STS; Literature, Sci | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89205-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-89207-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-89205-0 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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