EN 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ancillary Justice, Apen, Utopia
10 Feb 2016
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Aj is a space opera: large scale futuristic science fiction that worse deals in space. Speculative fiction and fantasy have better access points and dominant notions (makes them more distant, foreign, approachable) No gender markings in this society, no female/male features but also no linguistic categories to define a person as either. No standardized notion of parentage or reproduction. Class of women defined by relationships with class of men and. What makes a woman heterosexual (pg 20) vice versa. Does not think lesbianism is male/female specific. Social hierarchy by military ranking or family prestige. Ann is concerned about social judgment but abiya is not because of privilege. Radchaai restrictive in terms of what is human pronouns. Radchaai has no gender markings only she and. Brew thinks in radchaai so she sees no markers. Breq is called a little girl so she presumably has a female body.
