Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Science Fiction, writes author Justine Larbalestier, has always told the tale of the battle between the sexes. The battle can be witnessed from afar, as in the grainy 1930’s letter columns in old sci-fi magazines like Astounding where quarrels over innate sexual differences were published and debated, or from up close in today’s literature. Larbalestier declares that the goal of her book is to illustrate how necessary and important this former, pre-70’s period of science fiction (1926 to 1973) is to contemporary feminist science fiction. The pre-70’s time period has been consistently ignored by critics, who fixate on later texts and their more obvious ties to feminism.
Repository Citation
Bisz, Joe. "On Justine Larbalestier’s The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 5, no. 4, 2005, pp. 1–3. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol5/iss4/9