Women's Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women's Liberation Through Science Fiction

by Kara Kennedy

This book undertakes the first large-scale analysis of women's agency in Frank Herbert's six-book science fiction Dune series. Kara Kennedy explores how female characters in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood--from Jessica to Darwi Odrade--secure control and influence through five avenues of embodied agency: mind-body synergy, reproduction and motherhood, voices, education and memory, and sexuality. She also discusses constraints on their agency,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030892042
• ISBN13: 9783030892043
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"