Fit to Breed: Exercise and Sport in Women's Speculative Fiction

This essay examines Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Ursula Le Guin's "The Matter of Seggri" as critiques of the segregative gendering of exercise and sport--especially, with regard to their portrayals of the dystopian ramifications of stringent communities where pr...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Mosaic (Winnipeg) 2021-12, Vol.54 (4), p.115-131
1. Verfasser:	Yang, Karen Ya-Chu
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aesthetics American literature Atwood, Margaret Atwood, Margaret (1939- ) Canadian literature Exercise Feminism Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935) Le Guin, Ursula K Le Guin, Ursula K (1929-2018) Nuclear energy Science fiction & fantasy Social exclusion
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Zusammenfassung:	This essay examines Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Ursula Le Guin's "The Matter of Seggri" as critiques of the segregative gendering of exercise and sport--especially, with regard to their portrayals of the dystopian ramifications of stringent communities where procreative competence is the sole criterion for determining bodily fitness.
ISSN:	0027-1276 1925-5683 1925-5683
DOI:	10.1353/mos.2021.a903591