Ladies First

and Foremost

Jenny Kristine Thurman

Conversations about Science Fiction for Girls

How to Suppress Women’s Writingby Joanna Russ

She didn’t write it. Women don’t write science fiction.

She wrote it, but she shouldn’t have. It’s too

political, too angry, too feminist, She wrote it, but look what she wrote about. Romance doesn’t belong in

science fiction. She wrote it, but she only one of it. Mary Shelley didn’t write a sequel to Frankenstein. She wrote it, but she isn’t really an artist, and it isn’t really art. It’s for children. It’s for teens. She wrote it,

but she had help. She stole the idea from a cult hit. She wrote it, but she’s an anomaly. All the other

science fiction novels for children feature boys. She wrote it BUT...

•Double Standard of Content

•Denial of Agency

•Pollution of Agency

•False Categorization

•Isolation

•Anomalousness

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

Don’t Worry!

It’s not like Twilight

2013 People’s Choice Awards

Favorite MovieFavorite Action MovieFavorite Movie Actress

Favorite Movie FranchiseFavorite on Screen

Chemistry

Hero or Symbol?

•Chris Evans

•Chris Hemsworth

•Christian Bale

•Robert Downey Jr.

•Will Smith

• Anne Hathaway

• Emma Stone

• Jennifer Lawrence

• Kristin Stewart

• Scarlett Johansson

VS

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeline L’Engle

• The Handmaid’s Tale

• The Female Man

• The Left Hand of Darkness

• Falling Free

• A Wrinkle in Time

• Ender’s Game

•Uglies

• Little Brother