Woman – Scientist – Mutant: Gender in Julia Nidecka’s Stories Cover Image

Kobieta – naukowiec – mutant. Płeć w opowiadaniach Julii Nideckiej
Woman – Scientist – Mutant: Gender in Julia Nidecka’s Stories

Author(s): Kinga Wyskiel
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Anthropology, Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Economy, Gender Studies, Psychology, Human Geography, Environmental Geography, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Sociology, Polish Literature, Culture and social structure , Management and complex organizations, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Theory of Literature, Geopolitics, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Julia Nidecka; science fiction; gender; woman; feminism; mutant

Summary/Abstract: Kinga Wyskiel’s article concerns the issue of gender in science fiction stories by Julia Nidecka. The following stories have been analysed and interpreted: “Wilki na wyspie” [Wolves on the Island], “Taśmy prawdy” [Tapes of Truth], “Kwiaty w bukiecie” [Flowers in a Bouquet] and “Goniący za słońcem” [Chasing the Sun]. Wyskiel considers two dominant strategies for the representation of femininity in these stories and focuses on Nidecka’s images of the woman scientist and the mutant woman present in them. Wyskiel also points out that gender is an a priori category in Nidecka’s future worlds and that, consequently, the construction of those worlds has been based on the gender matrix.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 1 (21)
  • Page Range: 1-17
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish