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- Title: Unhappy Housewife Heroines, Galactic Suburbia, And Nuclear war: A New History of Midcentury Women's Science Fiction.
- Author : Extrapolation
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 217 KB
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Introduction: Revisiting Galactic Suburbia in the Cold War * In 1971 Joanna Russ proposed that there were no real or well-rounded women in science fiction; rather, SF authors--male and female alike--typically relegated female characters to what she called "galactic suburbia," where they quietly fulfilled their roles as wives and mothers, tending the nuclear family while their heroic husbands were off solving interstellar crises (88). While at the time Russ's words were met with "a certain amount of male hysteria" (Lefanu 13). SF historians in the ensuing decades seem to have taken them to heart, praising recent generations of feminist writers for their efforts to imagine new and more complex modes of gender relations while simultaneously relegating their midcentury predecessors to the marginalized domain of what would come to be known as "housewife heroine" SF.