Patrick B Sharp Female All Books sku-414435381 SF Book

Patrick B Sharp's Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction is listed under All Books with the Female designation and SKU sku-414435381. The book presents a detailed scholarly examination of women's science fiction in the early magazine period before the Second World War.

Sharp traces the tradition to the 1600s, discussing how Margaret Cavendish and Mary Shelley criticized the colonial mindset of scientific masculinity and the institutions that excluded women. It then examines how Charles Darwin's theory of sexual selection influenced first-wave feminists in the late nineteenth century to imagine Amazonian worlds where women controlled their bodies, relationships and destinies.

Sharp follows the influence of these ideas on women publishing in science fiction magazines in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and describes feminist science fiction's early twentieth-century prominence and its disappearance until the 1960s.