They range from novels and prose poems to film scripts and personal testimonies, and in time from the 19th century to the present. Livia examines a broad corpus of written texts in English and French, concentrating on those texts which problematize the traditional functioning of the linguistic gender system. Livia uses the term "pronoun envy" ironically to show that rather being a case of misguided envy, battles over gendered language are central to feminist concerns.
In this volume, Anna Livia reveals continuities both before and after the sexist language refore movement and shows how the creative practices of pronoun use on the part of feminist writers had both aesthetic and political ends. Most accounts do not extend beyond policy issues like the official institution of non-sexist language. About half the stories assembled in Saccharin Cyanide (coll 1990) present similar lessons in sf terms (see Feminism), as does the later story "The Boy in the Box" (1994 Strange Plasma #7) the collection Incidents Involving Mirth (coll 1990) also includes some genre tales.Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic "he," has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the last 30 years, and is certainly the most contested political issue in Western feminist linguistics. Her third, Bulldozer Rising ( 1988), is an sf Dystopia which depicts a culture rigidly dominated by young males in which "old" women, unpersoned and unperceived from the age of 40, represent the only remaining human potential, the only hope for revolt. Her second novel, Accommodation Offered ( 1985), invokes a spirit world which has a ring of fantasy. Working name of Irish author, teacher and editor Anna Livia Julian Brawn (1955-2007), in the UK from her teens and in the US from 1990, latterly a lecturer in French at the University of California, Berkeley a lesbian feminist of radical views, which she has advanced in tales of considerable wit, though at book length her effects become uneasy.
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