This framing technique is more than just a useful device for decoding gender and genre it''s also quite fun. Attebery uses cultural theory to play the kind of "what if" game so near and dear to the collective heart of the SF community. Highly recommended."Lisa Yaszek, Extrapolation "Decoding Gender''sgreatest strength is its methodology. The concluding chapters convincingly demonstrate why these multiple histories matter.he has given us a way to see them more clearly. Attebery''s wide-ranging but judicious use of feminist theory balances especially nicely with his detailed analyses of individual SF texts both, in turn, provide fresh perspectives on SF history-or, more accurately, on SF''s multiple histories. Le Guin "Decoding Genderaddresses issues in powerful ways through its nuanced exploration of both masculine and feminine SF writing traditions. Fair-minded and vastly tolerant, knowledgeable in every field of science fiction and fantasy, writing with vitality, clarity, and humor-he has given us a work that will engage and reward both the scholar and the interested lay reader."Ursula K. "Brian Attebery is wonderfully fitted by nature, training, and experience to take on the complex subject of this book.
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