chabot@amber.DEC (l s chabot) (01/22/85)
I have to disagree with a statement made in a review recently posted on Uhura's Song. Saul Jaffe == > > Why is it that male authors have the females hidden in the background and > female authors tend to have everyone fade into the background *except* the > female character that represents them? It's not Saul's review with which I disagree (since I have not read the novel), it's the generalization about authors. Perhaps this is true in the subset of novels consisting of startrek novels, I don't know, I haven't read much in that area, and if that is the context of this generalization, I apologize for misunderstanding. But in literature general and even in science fiction and in fantasy, this is not the case. It is actually a kind of nasty generalization to make, since it labels female writers as lacking the objectivity and male writers as being reluctant or unable to create convincing female protagnists; moreover it is largely a mistake to look for impersonations of an author in the author's work. The novels for which Saul's generalization fails are too numerous to --er-- enumerate, a large enough number to discredit the term "tend" as used above. If I am to be pressed for examples, I suggest that instead we move such a discussion, since we will be discussing non-startrek matters, to net.women or net.books. L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
jaffe@topaz.ARPA (Saul) (01/23/85)
To clarify my statement in an earlier message, I was indeed refering mostly to the Star Trek books although there are other series which are equally at fault. (I will not go into them here). -- Saul Jaffe Systems Programmer Rutgers University ARPA: Jaffe@Rutgers UUCP: Jaffe@Topaz
zubbie@ihlpa.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) (01/29/85)
> numerous to --er-- enumerate, a large enough number to discredit the term > "tend" as used above. If I am to be pressed for examples, I suggest that > instead we move such a discussion, since we will be discussing non-startrek > matters, to net.women or net.books. > > L S Chabot Make that net.books or net.sci-fi not net.women Jeanette Zobjeck ihnp4!wlcrjs!zubbie