Gender, Ontology, and the Power of the Patriarchy: A Postmodern Feminist Analysis of Octavia Butler’sWild Seedand Margaret Atwood’sThe Handmaid’s Tale

2018/08/01 by Aisha Matthews · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction #Gothic Literature and Media Analysis #Themes in Literature Analysis #Patriarchy #Postmodernism #Power (physics) #Gender studies #Sociology #Art #Art history #Literature

paper · doi:10.1080/00497878.2018.1492403

openalex publication_date 2018/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

Behind every man, there is a great woman—or so we have historically been told. But the view from the cheap seats—where the unpaid labor expected of “womankind” fundamentally shapes the ideas we hol...

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• Placental Economy: Octavia Butler, Luce Irigaray, and Speculative Subjectivity

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