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First Study of Women in the Dune Series in New Book by Palgrave

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Kara Kennedy, PhD (aka Dune Scholar) announces the release of her book Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women’s Liberation through Science Fiction, a new scholarly study published by Palgrave. The book explores how female characters in the Dune series (1965-1985) have the kind of control over their bodies that 20th-century feminists fought for. “Over five decades after Frank Herbert’s Dune was… Read more »