Feminist science fiction

Feminist science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction which tends to deal with women's roles in society. Feminist science fiction poses questions about social issues such as how society constructs gender roles, the role reproduction plays in defining gender and the unequal political and personal power of men and women. Some of the most notable feminist science fiction works have illustrated these themes using utopias to explore a society in which gender differences or gender power imbalances do not exist, or dystopias to explore worlds in which gender inequalities are intensified, thus asserting a need for feminist work to continue.According to Elyce Rae Helford: Women writers have played key roles in science fiction and fantasy literature, often addressing themes of gender and other concerns of interest to women. One of the first writers of science fiction was Mary Shelley, whose novel Frankenstein dealt with the asexual creation of new life, a re-telling of the Adam and Eve... full article at wikipedia