Study that surveys the work of writer Doris Lessing from her early African writings to her experiments with space fiction. It traces her struggles to decentre imaginative life and to erase and to redraw the boundaries of our mental maps in favour of values on the margins of the official culture.
Description of Le Guin’s (1929) engagement with gender theory and practice. During the 1970s, Le Guin experienced a paradigm shift to feminism, a change which had effects on her work. This examination explores her early writing and how her work changed both thematically and aesthetically as a result of feminism. Attention is paid to Le Guin’s later phase, wherein she transitions to post-feminism.