Ursula K. Le Guin: Space Crone (second, expanded edition) collects Le Guin's writings on feminism and gender, now with her influential essay 'The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction'.
About This Book
The first collection of its kind, Space Crone brings together half a century of Le Guin's thinking on feminism and gender. She lived through—and took part in—the century's great upheavals, from women's liberation and the civil rights movement to anti-war and environmental activism, and these pieces trace a multispecies feminist consciousness that grew out of deep ecology and anti-nuclear politics, her commitment to non-violence, her self-education about racism, and her writing on motherhood and ageing. This expanded edition adds 'The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction', Le Guin's short, much-cited essay that recasts the first human tool not as a weapon but as a container—and with it, the shape a story can take.
Key Features
- Expanded edition now including 'The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction'
- Essays, speeches and occasional writing spanning 50 years
- Edited by Sarah Shin and So Mayer
- Includes 'Is Gender Necessary? (Redux)', Le Guin's reflection on The Left Hand of Darkness
What You'll Discover
- How Le Guin's feminism grew from ecological and anti-nuclear activism
- Her non-essentialising approach to gender and how it evolved
- Writing on motherhood, ageing and the figure of the crone
- Why the carrier bag—not the spear—offers a different model for stories, technology and design
About the Author
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American writer of fiction, poetry and essays whose work engaged with feminism, ecology and social justice. Sarah Shin and So Mayer are the editors behind several of Silver Press's Le Guin volumes, including The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 129 × 198 mm
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781068240973
- Publisher: Silver Press
Perfect For: Readers of feminist theory and Le Guin's fiction, and designers drawn to the carrier bag as a model for gathering, holding and making.