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

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 embod...

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Main Author:	Kennedy, Kara (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Subjects:	Fiction. Literature-Philosophy. Feminism and literature. America-Literatures. Popular Culture. Women-History. Sex. Fiction Literature. Feminist Literary Theory. North American Literature. Women's History / History of Gender. Gender Studies. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book