- Title Pages
- Foreword
-
Introduction: Deconstructing The Starships
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1: Getting Rid of the Brand Names* -
2: The Lady and the Scientists* -
3: Dreamer: An Exercise in Extrapolation 1989–2019* -
4: My Crazy Uncles: C.S. Lewis and Tolkien as Writers for Children* -
5: Fools: The Neuroscience of Cyberspace* -
6: Trouble (Living in the Machine)* -
7: Sex: The Brains of Female Hyena Twins* -
8: Aliens in the Fourth Dimension -
9: In the Chinks of the World Machine: Sarah Lefanu on Feminist SF -
10: Consider Her Ways: The Fiction of C.J. Cherryh -
11: Alien Sex: Ellen Datlow’s Overview of the SF Orgasm -
12: The Boys Want to be with the Boys: Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash -
13: Glory Season: David Brin’s Feminist Utopia -
14: Virtual Light: A Shocking Dose of Comfort and Joy from William Gibson -
15: Return to the Age of Wonder: John Barnes’s A Million Open Doors -
16: Winterlong: Elizabeth Hand at the End of the World -
17: Plague of Angels: The Fiction of Sheri Tepper -
18: The Furies: Suzy Charnas Beyond the End of the World -
19: Alien Influences: Kristine Kathryn Rusch in the Dark -
20: No Man’s Land: Feminised Landscapes in the Utopian Fiction of Ursula Le Guin - Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
Sex: The Brains of Female Hyena Twins
Sex: The Brains of Female Hyena Twins
- Chapter:
- (p.99) 7: Sex: The Brains of Female Hyena Twins*
- Source:
- Deconstructing the Starships
- Author(s):
Gwyneth Jones
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
‘Sex: The Brains of Female Hyena Twins’ was originally a paper read at the second annual conference of the Academic Fantastic Fiction Network, at Reading University in December 1994, and was also published in Strange Attractors. Throughout the essay, Jones makes comparisons to the sexual habits and composition of other species and wildlife, but pays particularly close attention to the changing attitudes toward gender, human sexual behaviour and social roles in feminist science fiction and other literature.
Keywords: English Literature, Literary Criticism, Science Fiction, Fantasy Writing, 20th Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Feminist Literature, Feminist Science Fiction, Sexuality and Gender
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
-
Introduction: Deconstructing The Starships
* -
1: Getting Rid of the Brand Names* -
2: The Lady and the Scientists* -
3: Dreamer: An Exercise in Extrapolation 1989–2019* -
4: My Crazy Uncles: C.S. Lewis and Tolkien as Writers for Children* -
5: Fools: The Neuroscience of Cyberspace* -
6: Trouble (Living in the Machine)* -
7: Sex: The Brains of Female Hyena Twins* -
8: Aliens in the Fourth Dimension -
9: In the Chinks of the World Machine: Sarah Lefanu on Feminist SF -
10: Consider Her Ways: The Fiction of C.J. Cherryh -
11: Alien Sex: Ellen Datlow’s Overview of the SF Orgasm -
12: The Boys Want to be with the Boys: Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash -
13: Glory Season: David Brin’s Feminist Utopia -
14: Virtual Light: A Shocking Dose of Comfort and Joy from William Gibson -
15: Return to the Age of Wonder: John Barnes’s A Million Open Doors -
16: Winterlong: Elizabeth Hand at the End of the World -
17: Plague of Angels: The Fiction of Sheri Tepper -
18: The Furies: Suzy Charnas Beyond the End of the World -
19: Alien Influences: Kristine Kathryn Rusch in the Dark -
20: No Man’s Land: Feminised Landscapes in the Utopian Fiction of Ursula Le Guin - Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
