Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction: A ...
Derek J. Thiess
For example, the only scholarly monograph to date to treat age in sf in a significant manner does so largely in order “to examine the power relations as a complex network in which an individual''s location can never be interpreted in a simple manner because gender intersects with other social identities (age, ethnicity, class and so forth)” (Lehtonen 60). Sanna Lehtonen here is specifically discussing the way in which “age-shifting” in fantasy allows authors to challenge power relations ...