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    Science Stories, life stories: Engaging the sciences through feminist science fiction

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    Authors
    Merrick, Helen
    Date
    2010
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Merrick, Helen. 2010. Science Stories, life stories: Engaging the sciences through feminist science fiction. Women's Studies International Forum. 33 (2): pp. 141-148.
    Source Title
    Women's Studies International Forum
    DOI
    10.1016/j.wsif.2009.12.002
    ISSN
    02775395
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    Department of Film and Television
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    The link to the journal’s home page is: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/361/description#description. Copyright © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40193
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    Abstract

    Despite the groundbreaking work of feminist science scholars, the "two culture" divide between the science and humanities remains pronounced in feminist scholarship. As critics such as Elizabeth Wilson and Vicki Kirby have observed, much feminist philosophy fails to engage with scientific understandings of "life" in their accounts of gendered subjectivity and embodiment. One area where feminist work in both the sciences and the arts may be seen to productively converge is in feminist science fiction (SF). This article argues that feminist SF could be a vital participant in 'cross-cultural' feminist conversations about the cultures and discourses of the natural sciences, through a close reading of the 2004 novel Life, by Gwyneth Jones.

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