8th+grade+-+Golden+Age+of+SF+-+Gender+Dominance



Science Fiction, which took place during the 30s-50s, is a genre that most women may not find interest in. This could be a good reason why women were not writers of science fiction, during the Golden Age. I don’t think so. Women were rarely writers of this time because they weren’t taken seriously about it. Leigh Brackett was mistaken for a man by Howard Hawks when he was reading through different authors works looking for someone to help him on //The Big Sleep// script. "Call in this guy Brackett to help William Faulker write the script for //The Big Sleep" **,**// he just assumed that the author was a man and that tells u that women weren't even expected to be great writers. The Science Fiction criterion was originated by men and I guess this meant them that women weren’t allowed in such as a boys’ club. This matter sounds like the movie the little rascals and this may sound ridiculous, but it’s true. The boys from the movie had a club called the He-Man-Women-Haters Club and no “women” were allowed in. That club was also created by some type of man. Women such as C.L. Moore were sometimes denied the chance to publish some of their work, because of the fact that they were women. This is the reason why C.L. Moore wrote under her initials, so that her work would not be judged differently, because she was a women. Being prejudice against women and their work is not fair too any sex, because women and men should be equal. During this time period women were expected to be house wives and stay at home moms, but women should be able to have the right to vote also. Women were just granted the right to vote ten years before this time period, so women were basically just begining to get political priviledges. Women had to go behind their husbands backs just to write down their true feelings and not use their full names to get their work published for the world to see. If a woman goes through all this to get her work put out there then she nust have really wanted that right to write in the science fiction genre.