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Next on my reading list is Future Females: the Next Generation, a collection of academic essays on feminist SF. Luckily I've got enough acaspeak under my belt to cope, but just let me do a little rewriting here.

Hence I shall ask: To what extent do Noon's cyberpunk narratives constitute an oppositional critique of hegemonic gender ideologies?

Hence I shall ask: Would Noon's cyberpunk novels challenge most peoples' assumption about gender? If so, how much?

Hence I shall ask: Does Noon's cyberpunk attack dominant ideas about men and women?

Hence I shall ask: Does Noon's cyberpunk critique sexism?

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That's why I'll ask: how much do Noon's cyberpunk stories criticize gender role institutions.

Jeff Noon, author of Vurt, Pollen, Nymphmation, etc.

I have to confess, I've read 3 of Noon's books and, er, never really thought of any of that once.

I guess maybe the best answers would lie in Automated Alice but I could be wrong.

I hadn't either! Some quite interesting stuff in the essay which I'll summarise shortly.

There's some interesting "oppositional critique of hegemonic gender ideologies" (long words are big and clever) in his short story collection "pixel juice". I like Noon - have only read Pollen and Pixel Juice, must read more.
Future Females was on our reading list for the MA, but because I was almost the only one who didn't do Feminist SF for the Utopias & Dystopias module, I never got around to reading it. Overall verdict on worthiness of endeavour?

I'm not impressed by the editor's stuff, but the Noon essay was definitely worthwhile. Other essays I'm going to need to do the background reading before I can tackle them! If you can borrow it, I think it's definitely worth a look. The full cite is:

Barr, Marleen S. (ed). Future females, the next generation : new voices and velocities in feminist science fiction criticism. Oxford : Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. (Paperback - ISBN 0847691268)

Now I must make a Vurt ikon.

There's a completely bonkers piece in there about Clinton and clitorises, which I thought would make a great little essay if they just had the confidence to write like Helen Razor, rather than bury the witty insights in imsofuckingcleverist jargon which kills the jokes stone dead!

My eyes fell out when I tried to read that one.

*applause*

That's some nice bullshit-consolidating there.

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