Gender non-conformity in science fiction: interrogating gender as language in The First Sister trilogy

Abstract

This project seeks to analyze gender through the lens of a language within the First Sister Trilogy. The purpose of this approach is to interrogate the multitude of ways in which gender is performed, experienced, and read, in order to create a consistent and coherent framework with which to articulate the fluid and multifaceted nature of gender. More specifically, it seeks to investigate the ways that science fiction, as well as other forms of speculative fiction, may be used in order to improve reader understanding of gender as a construct, making them more able to grasp and articulate the ways in which gender exists as a fluid and nuanced structure.