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Hardcover Women's Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women's Liberation Through Science Fiction Book

ISBN: 3030892042

ISBN13: 9783030892043

Women's Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women's Liberation Through Science Fiction

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This book undertakes the first large-scale analysis of women's agency in Frank Herbert's six-book science fiction Dune series. Kara Kennedy explores how female characters in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood-from Jessica to Darwi Odrade-secure control and influence through five avenues of embodied agency: mind-body synergy, reproduction and motherhood, voices, education and memory, and sexuality. She also discusses constraints on their agency, tensions...

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