Gendering Time, Timing Gender: The Deconstruction of Gender in Time Travel Fiction

by Pooja Mittal Biswas

Gendering Time, Timing The Deconstruction of Gender in Time Travel Fiction is an investigation into how time travel has been used to deconstruct gender and sex in speculative fiction.
Specifically, it focuses on how the dismantling of the past/future binary is utilised in the dismantling of the male/female gender binary in four different time travel Orlando by Virginia Woolf, 'All You Zombies' by Robert A. Heinlein, and The Unintentional Time Traveler by Everett Maroon.
Combining queer theory with literary theory, the book explores what the deconstruction of binary gender means and where it leads.

140 pages, Paperback

Published February 16, 2021

Reviews

[ExLibris · Rating 5 out of 5]

I discovered Biswas' book after reading another one of hers, A Diasporic Mythography. She writes very clearly which for a scholar/researcher is a great bonus, as it makes her work accessibile.
It was fascinating going into depth, at least with the stories considered in the book, on how gender and transition are dealt with in fiction - and this time the examples are actually on the positive scale.
It's a quick read, easy, and certainly a very informative one.