Feminist Fiction: Feminist Uses of Generic Fiction

Cranny-Francis, A

Feminist Fiction: Feminist Uses of Generic Fiction

Cranny-Francis, A

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Publisher:: Cambridge UK and New York
Publication Type:: Book
Citation:: 1990, 1
Issue Date:: 1990-01

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dc.contributor.author	Cranny-Francis, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5747-1183	en_US
dc.date.issued	1990-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	1990, 1	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	0745605273	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/14237
dc.description.abstract	One of the most innovative and interesting areas of contemporary literary production is feminist genre fiction - the feminist appropriation of the generic 'popular' literary forms, including science fiction, fantasy, utopian fiction, detective fiction and romance. This is genre fiction written frJPl a self-consciously feminist perspective, consciously encoding an ideology which is in direct opposition to the dominant gender ideology of Western society, patriarchal ideology. Not all women writers are feminist writers. Many writers work conscientiously within the dominant ideologies of gender, race and class; after all, that is the best way to make a living (Lovell, 1987 (A) f - and it does not preclude the expression of oppositional views within their texts, even if one suspects that these views are effectively subsumed by the conservatism which colours the text as a whole. The fiction in which I am interested here, however, does not admit this compromise.	en_US
dc.publisher	Cambridge UK and New York	en_US
dc.title	Feminist Fiction: Feminist Uses of Generic Fiction	en_US
dc.type	Book
utslib.location	Polity Press (UK) and St Martin's Press (NY)	en_US
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dc.location.activity	London, UK
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/School of Communication
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Abstract:

One of the most innovative and interesting areas of contemporary literary production is feminist genre fiction - the feminist appropriation of the generic 'popular' literary forms, including science fiction, fantasy, utopian fiction, detective fiction and romance. This is genre fiction written frJPl a self-consciously feminist perspective, consciously encoding an ideology which is in direct opposition to the dominant gender ideology of Western society, patriarchal ideology. Not all women writers are feminist writers. Many writers work conscientiously within the dominant ideologies of gender, race and class; after all, that is the best way to make a living (Lovell, 1987 (A) f - and it does not preclude the expression of oppositional views within their texts, even if one suspects that these views are effectively subsumed by the conservatism which colours the text as a whole. The fiction in which I am interested here, however, does not admit this compromise.

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