Mujeres en la literatura de la ciencia ficción: entre la escritura y el feminismo

Science-fiction is a literary genre in constant expansion, though still little known, above all among female readers. This is due to the prejudice that this is a genre that only addresses male, technophiliac readers. It is my intention here to destroy this prejudice considering the texts written by the women authors of SF and, particularly, the impact of feminism on the academic debate focused on the very nature of SF, specifically in the US. I also analyse, using a comparative methodology, four very different samples of the SF genre. These are two books written by women –The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by US author Ursula K. Le Guin and La mutació sentimental (2007) by Catalan author Carme Torras– and two by men but centred on women: Matter (2008) by Scottish author Iain M. Banks and El mecanoscrit del segon origen (1979) by Catalan Manuel de Pedrolo.