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Chen Chufan
In history, many female writers have published works and even won awards through male pseudonyms. That is to say, with the help of the surging feminism and equal rights movement in the past 50 years, this situation can be improved.
In China, it is another context. China still advocates science fiction works in the golden age style that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s in the United States. Under the guidance of this trend, look around—Many sci-fi works are full of male gazes, symbolic depictions of women, and gender stereotypes.
Many people are in it without knowing it, including myself. I also took advantage of the translation of my work into other languages to reflect on the gender issues in my creation from the perspective of the “other”.
But before unfolding this story, let’s go back to history and take a look at how science fiction relates to feminism.
feminine imagination in utopia
Go back to 1818, the source of modern science fiction. Many people forget that science fiction is actually born under the pen of a female author, Mary Shelley(Mary Shelley) > Her creation of “Frankenstein” also laid the foundation for the development of science fiction in the past 200 years.
“Frankenstein”-Mary Shelley
In the past 200 years, countless feminist science fiction writers have used them