Thought Experiments: Connections between genre and feminism in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Joanna Russ's The Female Man

dc.contributor.author	Ellingsen, Stine	eng
dc.date.accessioned	2014-11-24T07:33:27Z
dc.date.available	2014-11-24T07:33:27Z
dc.date.issued	2014-09-01	eng
dc.date.submitted	2014-09-01	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1956/8779
dc.description.abstract	In this thesis, I show how the two novels The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin, and The Female Man, by Joanna Russ, make use of the transformativity of speculative fiction in order to explore sex/gender. Speculative fiction is an umbrella term that contains such genres as science fiction, utopian fiction, and dystopian fiction, and I will point to elements of these genres in the novels, and show how these elements are connected to the novels' exploration of sex/gender and their expression of feminism.	en_US
dc.format.extent	677587 bytes	eng
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	eng
dc.language.iso	eng	eng
dc.publisher	The University of Bergen	eng
dc.subject	speculative fiction	eng
dc.subject	Science fiction	eng
dc.subject	utopia	eng
dc.subject	Dystopia	eng
dc.subject	utopianism	eng
dc.subject	dystopianism	eng
dc.title	Thought Experiments: Connections between genre and feminism in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Joanna Russ's The Female Man	eng
dc.type	Master thesis
dc.rights.holder	Copyright the author. All rights reserved
dc.description.degree	Master i Engelsk
dc.description.localcode	MAHF-ENG
dc.description.localcode	ENG350
dc.subject.nus	711124	eng
fs.subjectcode	ENG350