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From Manland to Womanland: Gender in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Ist Teil von
Foundation (Dagenham), 2015-01, Vol.44 (122), p.83
Ort / Verlag
Dagenham: Science Fiction Foundation
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In the following panel, Emily Cox referred to the recurrence of female machines in sf literature and film, from Maria/Futura in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) to Rachel, in both Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). The subsequent discussion picked up on this point by casting doubts on Banks' claim that the Culture is a fully post-patriarchal society but also acknowledging that his works open up interesting questions and possibilities beyond conventional gender roles and relations. Pointing out that much of the distinction between female and male bodies concerns the anatomy of holes, Schwarz analysed Cronenberg's biologically excessive presentation of holed bodies in great detail - leavened only by a series of delicious deadpan asides - in order to argue that the way in which his treatment of the body is often simultaneously horrific, abject and comic creates a liminal uncertainty by which gendered bodies are repositioned from their binary separation into a place of the in-between.