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It is with Saldana’s words—paired with our love of speculative fiction—that the idea for this chapter began. Why is it that we see more strong female leads in speculative fiction, especially those from marginalized ethnic backgrounds? Why do we have to travel through time and space, through worlds and magical kingdoms, to see a woman’s potential, to see ourselves as strong female leads in our own worlds outside the ones we read about? While these questions are for a different project altogether, we begin grappling with them in this piece, understanding that there are spaces for women in texts and in classrooms that cannot and should not be overlooked.
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Robbins, M.A., Whitley, J.J. (2016). From Fledgling to Buffy. In: Fabrizi, M.A. (eds) Fantasy Literature. Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors And Genres. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-758-0_7
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