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REVIEw OF THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES In SCIEnCE FICTIOn

Larbalestier, Justine. The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2002. 304 pages; cloth, $50.00, ISBN: 0-8195-6526-1, paper $19.95, ISBN: 0-8195-6527-X.

One of the paradoxes of science fiction is that a field redolent of potential for denaturalizing and reinventing the parameters of human society has been, historically, conservative, self-devouring, and inbred. Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in its attitudes -- especially during the dominance of the pulps -- toward women, whether as subjects of sf or its practitioners. Configured as invaders or polluters, women were the targets of the field's self-policing discourse both in reader/editor ...

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