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The Power of Radical Thought Experiments: Reading Feminist Science Fiction in Comparative Education
Comparative Education Review ( IF 2.037 ) Pub Date : 2020-02-01 , DOI: 10.1086/706850
Iveta Silova

I have a habit of reading several books at a time (in parallel)—both in my academic areas of interest and for pleasure—and I have never had a problem keeping these readings separate. But in the last few years, something strange started happening. Ideas from different books began to weave together and merge to such a degree that I was not sure any longer what I was reading in which book! This mostly happened when reading a combination of scholarly (eco)feminist studies and feminist science fiction novels—books written by feminist female writers and published across different geographies and time spans. The last “incident” brought into focus interesting interconnections between Naomi Alderman’s The Power (2018), a speculative fiction novel imagining what would happen in a conventional society if gender roles suddenly switched, with several other pieces, including Marina Warner’s Fantastical Metamorphoses, Other Worlds (2002), a literary journey across cultures exploring the transformation of “self” through myths and tales; Florinda Donner’s Beingin-Dreaming (1991), an autobiography of an anthropologist and a practicing witch; and Frieda Forman and Caoran Sowton’s (1989) Taking Our Time: Feminist Perspectives on Temporality, an edited collection of academic essays in politics, philosophy, physics, and literature on women’s life rhythms in the context of patriarchal linear time. A connecting thread running through these different texts opens the space and animates our capacity for imagining alternative worldmaking: alternative ways of knowing and being, alternative gender dynamics, and alternative perspectives on temporality. For example, when I read about alternative modes of time consciousness (such as entering “time outside time”) or the potential to tap into different energy sources (whether spiritual, magical, or electric), was it in an edited academic volume, a witch’s autobiography, or a science fiction book? Startled at first, I tried to carefully untangle these threads and trace them to particular books only to realize that the lines between science and fiction were blurring right in front of my eyes. What feminist academics were discussing in philosophical terms was practically illustrated in a witch’s embodied experiences and brought to scale by a science fiction author. What was science and what was fiction—and what was science

中文翻译:

激进思想实验的力量:阅读比较教育中的女性主义科幻小说

我有一次(并行)阅读几本书的习惯——无论是在我感兴趣的学术领域还是为了娱乐——而且我从来没有遇到过将这些阅读分开的问题。但在过去的几年里,一些奇怪的事情开始发生。来自不同书籍的想法开始交织并融合到如此程度,以至于我不再确定我在哪本书中读到了什么!这主要发生在阅读学术(生态)女权主义研究和女权主义科幻小说的结合时——由女权主义女性作家撰写并在不同地区和时间跨度出版的书籍。最后一次“事件”引起了人们关注 Naomi Alderman 的 The Power(2018 年)之间有趣的相互联系,这是一部推测性小说,想象如果性别角色突然转换,传统社会会发生什么,与其他几部作品,包括玛丽娜·华纳 (Marina Warner) 的《神奇变形记,其他世界》(2002),这是一次跨文化的文学之旅,探索通过神话和故事“自我”的转变;弗洛琳达·唐纳 (Florinda Donner) 的《在做梦》(Beingin-Dreaming,1991),人类学家和女巫的自传;和 Frieda Forman 和 Caoran Sowton (1989) Take Our Time: Feminist Perspectives on Temporality,编辑的政治、哲学、物理学和文学方面的学术论文集,内容涉及父权制线性时间背景下的女性生活节奏。贯穿这些不同文本的连接线打开了空间,激发了我们想象另类世界的能力:另一种认识和存在方式、另一种性别动态以及关于时间的另一种观点。例如,当我读到关于时间意识的替代模式(例如进入“时间之外的时间”)或利用不同能量来源(无论是精神、魔法还是电)的潜力时,是在编辑过的学术卷还是女巫的自传中,还是科幻小说?起初我很吃惊,我试着小心翼翼地解开这些线索,将它们追溯到特定的书籍,结果发现科学和小说之间的界限在我眼前变得模糊了。女权主义学者用哲学术语讨论的内容实际上在女巫的具体经历中得到了说明,并由科幻小说作者进行了扩展。什么是科学,什么是小说——什么是科学 魔法或电子),它是在编辑过的学术卷、女巫的自传还是科幻小说中?起初我很震惊,我试着小心地解开这些线索,把它们追溯到特定的书,却发现科幻和小说之间的界限在我眼前变得模糊了。女权主义学者用哲学术语讨论的内容实际上在女巫的具体经历中得到了说明,并由科幻小说作者进行了扩展。什么是科学,什么是小说——什么是科学 魔法或电子),它是在编辑过的学术卷、女巫的自传还是科幻小说中?起初我很震惊,我试着小心地解开这些线索,把它们追溯到特定的书,却发现科幻和小说之间的界限在我眼前变得模糊了。女权主义学者用哲学术语讨论的内容实际上在女巫的具体经历中得到了说明,并由科幻小说作者进行了扩展。什么是科学,什么是小说——什么是科学 女权主义学者用哲学术语讨论的内容实际上在女巫的具体经历中得到了说明,并由科幻小说作者进行了扩展。什么是科学,什么是小说——什么是科学 女权主义学者用哲学术语讨论的内容实际上在女巫的具体经历中得到了说明,并由科幻小说作者进行了扩展。什么是科学,什么是小说——什么是科学
更新日期:2020-02-01
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