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How have women influenced the traditional male preserve of science fiction? Can women withstand the weight of misogynist ideas that burdens science fiction and, instead, use its radical and progresasive potentialities for their own ends?

Does science fiction offer certain freedoms to women writers – in terms of form as well as content – unavailable to the in the mainstream?

In this detailed and original analysis of contemporary science fiction written by women, Sarah Lefanu explores these ideas and link them to her thesis that science fiction is the ideal form of the fusion of feminist politics with the imagination.