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"THE mORE THInGS CHAnGE, THE mORE THEY REMAIn THE SAmE": GEnDER AnD SEXUALITY In OCTAVIA BUTLER'S OEUVRE
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September 30, 2004
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Octavia E. Butler has established a reputation for upending traditional power hierarchies -- of gender, race, and class -- and establishing "alternate speculative societies in which `men and women are honestly considered equal'" (Govan 82). But, as Frances Smith Foster has pointed out, feminist critics may object to Butler's fiction because her female characters often embody traditional gender roles as "healers, teachers, artists, mothers." They actively compromise themselves by allying with strong males within predominantly patriarchal societies (47-48). Recent criticism has focused more on the dystopian/utopian issue in Butler's works.
Yet even through this new theoretical lens, the ...
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