Gender_Relations_In_Science_Fiction

Gender Relations In Science Fiction GENDER RELATIONS IN SCIENCE FICTION In today’s world, many different mediums exist whereby ideas and beliefs can be communicated to the public; however, writing continues to be one of the most common forms. Writing can be subdivided into different categories depending on the type of message that is being conveyed. For instance, the use of science fiction creates virtually limitless boundaries, thus allowing the writer to explore various themes. This flexibility, however, does not make science fiction an effective medium for conveying certain ideas. Preconceived notions always exist based on a person’s environmental development, and these notions affect the way in which a person interprets ideas. In the stories of The Left hand of Darkness, The Women Men don’t see and A Few things I know about Whileaway, science fiction fails to become a medium that challenges the typical gender roles that all readers have instilled in their minds. Although the genre of science fiction can create any surreal form of society, it is not an effective medium through which concepts of sexual characteristics can be challenged because pre-existing notions of gender roles that are present in the minds of each reader cannot permit such science, fiction, women, war, female, male, story, men, society, gender, narrator, reader, masculine, however, each, although, short, genly, world, traditional, left, hand, darkness, whileaway, societies, sexual, planet, characters, characteristics, violence, tiptree, since, readers, perception, one