Hi Bernhard, > I am not at all an expert on that, but for some reason I got the > impression that despite the possibilities of creativity which is > used in many other aspects of imagining realities in SF the > representation of the relationship between the two genders often is > very conservative, meaning men being responsible for discovery and > advancement (geographically, technologically, etc.) whereas women > often get the role of being a supporter of to the male heroes. Also > women are often described as essentially emotional, wild, sexual > (i.e. natural) whereas men are rational, logic, creative > (i.e. cultural).
You might be interested in this class paper by Ari Pollak and Josh Quintus, which explores this idea with regard to the Star Wars films: http://stuff.ebnj.net/paper.pdf -- hanna m. wallach blog: http://join-the-dots.org/ work: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/hmw26/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
