Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-The Women Of Cyberpunk

Often they are left to be sexual objects for the pleasure of men. As an example, in many science fiction video games, the “armor” women wear is normally just some glorified lingerie that in reality, would never be able to protect a person in battle. I’m not trying to claim that science fiction needs to portray reality, because I think if anything, science fiction is the perfect genre to express something different from reality. But when it gets to the point when women are only there to be pleasing to the eye, there’s a problem. I also find it horribly ironic that while this degradation is forced onto women in the science fiction world, they still face judgement and humiliation for obeying these standards placed upon them. At conventions, women are harassed for their cosplay of science fiction characters, likely for their “revealing” outfit, when they are just portraying what can be found within the genre. It’s unfair that women, even when acting as they are portrayed are still judged and

"Women on the Edge of Time" by Marge Piercy, is a novel that illustrates some problems of today’s society and compares them to a possible future time. The other world that is presented in the book is called Mattapoisett. Mattapoisett is described as an utopian science fiction place because is much different from the place that Connie lived. Even thought Mattapoisett might be the world that Connie’s culture needed it is not a perfect world. Some of the problems that Marge Piercy presents in the book are poverty, women’s role, and problems of government, the environment, and prejudices that our society is facing today. However, how is the society different from the two cultures presented in the book? Connie, the

“It’s taken the fantasy genre decades to grow out of its image as a juvenile boys’ club obsessed with cleavage and crossbows” (Griner). Though science fiction has attempted to break the gender stereotypes against female characters, the genre still has a long way to go. Currently, the majority of female characters are still portrayed as over-sexualized, and dependent on male characters. When women are shown in heroic female roles, they are still belittled for not being a man. Seiter claims that “Many of the more stereotyped features of the portrayal of women…are also accurate reflections of the sexist reality of our society” (21). It is unfortunate that this claim is accurate, but it is. Science fiction is a fictional genre, providing an opportunity to break all stereotypes and create a world from scratch. But gender stereotypes have been ingrained into the world, making them difficult to break when producing fictional stories. Sexism has created a gender bias in science fiction that needs to be changed.

During the Scientific Revolution women decided they were going to erupt from the tradition of being housewives and study science, literature, and astronomy even if men and other women would shun upon them. From the 1600s to the 1700s women attempted to make a break through, some women neglected house worthy chores, personal appearance, and more so that they could study. Although some women did all of these "chores and duties" and still had time to learn about science and other fields.

During the 19th century, men and women were assigned to confining sets of gender roles in a society that was often extremely critical and superficial. Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, was continuously exposed to the patriarchal ways of Victorian life and expected obedience of women and documented this through her female characters.

Throughout Wool, The dispossessed and Pattern recognition, we are exposed to many female characters in these novels. Although science fiction has long been defined as a genre dominated by men, it is so surprising to see that women character has played dominate roles in these novels. The impact of women on these novels can be clearly observed, but each book depicts women character so differently that made me curious about knowing further about women’s status and roles play in society and how they change over time.

Towards the end of the twentieth century, feminist women in America faced an underlying conflict to find their purpose and true meaning in life. “Is this all?” was often a question whose answer was sought after by numerous women reaching deeper into their minds and souls to find what was missing from their life. The ideal second-wave feminist was defined as a women who puts all of her time into cleaning her home, loving her husband, and caring for her children, but such a belief caused these women to not only lose their identity within her family but society as well. The emotions that feminist women were feeling at this time was the internal conflict that caused for social steps to be taken in hopes of

Imagine you are being used as a tool and ignored from this world. You would feel depressed. In this world, huge number of women or girls are being excluded from the society or their rights and freedoms are ignored from men. Sometimes they get sexually abused or raped and some women can't get education just because they are female and I believe that this is ridiculous because just they have different gender, they are ignored or sometimes used as a tool.

Joseph Conrad’s varying depiction of women in his novel Heart of Darkness provides feminist literary theory with ample opportunity to explore the overlying societal dictation of women’s gender roles and expectations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The majority of feminist theorists claim that Conrad perpetuates patriarchal ideology, yet there are a few that argue the novel is gendered feminine. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar claim “Conrad’s Heart of Darkness…penetrates more ironically and thus more inquiringly into the dark core of otherness that had so disturbed the patriarchal, the imperialist, and the psychoanalytic imaginations…Conrad designs for Marlow a pilgrimage whose

this point in time, as they were believed to be inferior to men. The works of female authors were not as

Steampunk Feminist is curated by Wilhelmina Thomas, Cos-player, student of history, Docent Oak Hill Cemetery and volunteer at the Birmingham Museum of Art, who is looking forward to earning an Associate degree in Architectural Design and Drafting Technology in 2016.

The female sex was believed to have been much weaker, not as intelligent, and inferior to the male sex. This led men to believe that women were incapable of performing activities seen as masculine. Writing is one of them: “writing, reading, and thinking are not only alien but also inimical to ‘female’ characteristics” (Gilbert and Gubar). Anything that was not seen as a woman's thing automatically became for men and men alone. Due to “invention” and “creation” not being one of the few things women could do, women were believed as incapable of writing. If a woman did, somehow, succeed in writing, it was freakish and unfeminine, and often even stolen, since, after all, it was a male’s characteristic (Gilbert and Gubar). Whenever a woman would write, men would see it as an attempt to cross boundaries placed my nature. Crossing boundaries seemed to men as a rebellion against authority (men) and “[…] in patriarchal culture, female speech and female ‘presumption’ –that is, angry revolt against male domination– are inextricably linked and inevitably daemonic” (Gilbert and Gubar). Undoubtedly, the life of female writers was very risky. Like Robert Southey said, "Literature is not the business of a woman's life, and it cannot be" (Gilbert and Gubar). And yet, Shelley proved them wrong by supporting herself financially through her writing.

This paper will be presenting a position paper focusing on the debate whether we are living in a post-feminist period in which gender is no longer a major barrier to equity. The paper will utilise feminism theory through use of article to create an argument to support this debate. It will also incorporate some compelling case justifying the researcher’s position.

It seems fitting that the 'marriage' of feminism and postmodernism is one fraught with both difference and argument. The fact that these disagreements occur within the realm of the intellectual undoubtedly puts a wry smile on the face of either party. While feminism and postmodernism share several characteristics, most notably the deconstruction of the masculinised western ideology, feminism chooses to place itself within the absolutism of the modernist movement. While feminism argues for the continuation of the subject/object dichotomy, aiming largely to reverse the feminine position of the latter to the former, postmodernism would have the modernist movement deconstructed in its entirety, including

The quote “For most of history, anonymous was a woman” by Virginia Woolf proves women were not mentioned enough. Anonymous means someone that is unknown. In the past, when history was written, women would be pushed aside and how they lived or were treated were unknown among many individuals. Citizens silenced all their achievements and accomplishments and no one knew or talk about them. Even if women wrote history, they would not receive creates and would be titled as “anonymous”. This gives people the inequality perspective of the world. It shows the injustice of how each individual was treated. Women did not receive respect and were ignored until they stood up for themselves and people started investigating and enlivening them