Satellites Out of Orbit (ebook)

Argumento de Satellites Out of Orbit (ebook)

This work of feminist fiction has five parts:

I. Epistles: epistles written by Eve, Cain?s wife, Noah?s wife, Delilah, the Queen of Sheba, Mary, and others ? as if they were feminist

II. Myths: the myths within the myths revealed ? what might Pandora, Circe, Penelope, Eurydice, Persephone, the Gorgons, and others have thought and done if they had not been the creations of a chauvinist patriarchy?

III. Letters: letters that might have been written by Lady Godiva, Milton?s daughter, Rubens? model, Mozart?s mother, Freud?s wife, Plato?s students, and others ? assuming a feminist consciousness

IV. Soliloquies: soliloquies delivered by Juliet, Ophelia, Lady MacBeth, Kate, Desdemona, Regan, Miranda, and others ? protesting the role given to them by Shakespeare

V. Fairy Tales: the classic fairy tales retold ? what would have happened if Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and others had been strong and critical girls and women living today?0