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By the 1960s science fiction was combining sensationalism with political and technological critiques of society.

With the advent of second wave feminism, women ’ s roles were questioned in this " subversive, mind expanding genre.

" Three notable texts of this period are Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness ( 1969 ), Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time ( 1976 ) and Joanna Russ ' The Female Man ( 1970 ).

Each highlights the socially constructed aspects of gender roles by creating worlds with genderless societies.

Both authors were pioneers in feminist criticism of science fiction during the 1960s and 70s through essays collected in The Language of the Night ( Le Guin, 1979 ) and How To Suppress Women's Writing ( Russ, 1983 ).