GÜNDOĞAN, U. EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ (2022) 14 RECONSTRUCTING GENDER IN SCIENCE FICTION: CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN AND JAMES TIPTREE, JR. Ufuk Gündoğan * ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine the subversive element of science fiction as a literary genre. Even though this area of literature established itself as a rather androcentric type of writing, mainly authored by male writers, the genre itself renders itself suitable for reimagining alternative realities. This paper focuses on woman writers who created invaluable works that are termed feminist utopia or feminist science fiction. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a pioneer with her all-woman utopian society in her 1915 novel Herland. One of her followers in this genre is James Tiptree, Jr., who became a household name in the science fiction world, and who in her turn, creates alternate worlds in her fiction, such as “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” where gender constructs are questioned and re-envisioned. Both Gilman’s and Tiptree’s fiction present different realities that are free from a dichotomous and sexist culture which pervades a patriarchal world. This gender duality gives way to a hierarchical order and all of its devastating results for civilization and the female sex. Both writers discussed in this paper created worlds where gender duality is non- existent, and hence, free of all its consequences. Keywords: Science Fiction, Gender, Feminist Theory, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James Tiptree, Jr., American Literature BİLİMKURGUDA CİNSİYETİN YENİDEN KURGULANMASI: CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN VE JAMES TIPTREE, JR. ÖZ Bu çalışmanın amacı, bir edebi tür olarak bilimkurgunun yıkıcı (subversive) öğelerini incelemektir. Söz konusu tür oldukça androsantrik (erkek-merkezci) olup çoğunlukla erkek yazarların alanı olmakla birlikte, bu alanda yaratılan eserlerin alternatif dünyalar tasarlamak için oldukça uygun olduklarını gözlemleriz. Bu çalışma, feminist * Assistant Professor, Dokuz Eylul University, ufuk.gundogan@deu.edu.tr, ORCID: 0000-0002-2673-2504 Makale Bilgisi: Gündoğan, U. (2022). Bilimkurguda Cinsiyetin Yeniden Kurgulanması: Charlotte Perkins Gilman ve James Tiptree, Jr. DEÜ Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, Cilt: 9, Sayı: 1, ss. 14-29 Article Info: Gündoğan, U. (2022). Reconstructing Gender in Science Fiction: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and James Tiptree, Jr. DEU Journal of Humanities, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, pp. 14- 29 Kategori: Araştırma Makalesi Category: Research Article Gönderildiği Tarih: 07.01.2022 Date Submitted: 07.01.2022 Kabul Edildiği Tarih: 25.01.2022 Date Accepted: 25.01.2022