A representation of a future inside or outside earth.
More advanced societies (although some stories take place a long long time ago).
Are these future and alien societies egalitarian?
Do filmmakers try to offer female roles?
7. What do these movies show?
✤ A representation of a future inside or outside earth.
✤ More advanced societies (although some stories take
place a long long time ago).
✤ Are these future and alien societies egalitarian?
✤ Do filmmakers try to offer female roles?
8. Bechdel Test
✤ It has to have at least two [named] women in it
✤ Who talk to each other
✤ About something besides a man
9. Usual clichés about women
✤ Damsel in distress
✤ Daddy issues
✤ Princess complex
✤ Suffering mother
✤ Love or lust interest
64. «Sexual roles in Science Fiction are as
immutable as the metal hull of a
spaceship, and emancipation an
unknown word»
– "Science Fiction: What It’s All About”, Sam Lundwall, 1971