Gender in speculative fiction | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:01:48 1 Critical analysis
00:03:54 1.1 Portrayal of women
00:06:18 1.2 Robots and cyborgs and the portrayal of women
00:07:30 1.3 Portrayal of men
00:09:17 1.4 Portrayal of transgender humans
00:10:20 1.5 Single-gender worlds: utopias and dystopias
00:13:36 2 Literature
00:14:01 2.1 Proto SF
00:14:44 2.2 The Pulp Era and the Golden Age (1920–1950s)
00:20:50 2.3 New Wave (1960-1970s)
00:24:25 2.4 Modern SF (1980–2000s)
00:26:54 3 Comics
00:28:57 4 Film and television
00:29:07 4.1 Film
00:29:49 4.2 Television
00:33:42 5 Notes



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Gender has been an important theme explored in speculative fiction. The genres that make up speculative fiction (SF), science fiction, fantasy, supernatural fiction horror, superhero fiction, science fantasy and related genres (utopian/dystopian literature), have always offered the opportunity for writers to explore social conventions, including gender, gender roles, and beliefs about gender.  Like all literary forms, the science fiction genre reflects the popular perceptions of the eras in which individual creators were writing; and those creators' responses to gender stereotypes and gender roles.
Many writers have chosen to write with little or no questioning of gender roles, instead effectively reflecting their own cultural gender roles onto their fictional world.  However, many other writers have chosen to use science fiction and non-realistic formats in order to explore cultural conventions, particularly gender roles.  This article discusses works that have explored or expanded the treatment of gender in science fiction.
In addition to the traditional human genders, science fiction has extended the idea of gender to include transgender humans and hypothetical alien species and robots, and imagined trans-real genders, such as with aliens that are truly hermaphroditic or have a "third" gender, or robots that can change gender at will or are without gender.