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Article: Decoding Gender in Science Fiction. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2003
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Decoding Gender in Science Fiction by Brian Attebery. New York and London: Routledge, 2002.
* Brain Attebery's Decoding Gender in Science Fiction proposes to tell an alternate history of science fiction based on the intersections of gender and genre. By bringing insights derived from feminist and feminist-friendly philosophy, literary theory, and cultural studies to bear on SF texts "in which the codes of gender and SF most powerfully transform one another," Attebery aims to counter the "smooth evolutionary narrative" of conventional SF history with a more complex one that proceeds in terms of "lurches, bumps, divided tracks, and half-camouflaged gaps" (12). A ...