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I am on two panels which I might be moderating - I'm not sure. One is going to be more of a general discussion, though, since there's only three of us.
I know that most of you, sadly, will not be present for these panels. (If you're lucky, someone will take and post notes.) But since I got really rushed due to grad school and traineeships, please help me out by proposing thought-provoking questions and discussion topics on either or both of these subjects. If I like them (and I'm modding) I'll put them to the panel.
The Huntress and the Dude in Distress: Gender Roles in The Hunger Games
Rachel Manija Brown, Faye Bi, Marie Brennan, Artemis Grey, Shveta Thakrar
This panel will discuss gender and gender roles as they relate to characters in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy. We will focus our discussion on the changing roles of Katniss, Gale, and Peeta, but will also explore gender roles as they pertain to secondary characters and to the societies of Panem.
[NOTE: Discussion will be spoilery for all three books.]
Women Who Run with Wolves and Dance with Dragons
Rachel Manija Brown, Cora Anderson, Janni Lee Simner
From the magic horses of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series to the psychic wolves of Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear’s A Companion to Wolves, fantasy novels have featured a wide variety of soul-bonded animal companions. These bonds, which range from wish-fulfillment fantasy to outright horror, are as diverse as the creatures themselves. This panel will discuss the tropes and themes of the animal companion motif, and explore the metaphoric nature of the bonds between women and their very special animals.
[NOTE: Bear and Monette's series was mentioned because it explicitly deals with gender roles; however, we'll discuss both women with animal companions, and any gender issues which involve animal companions. We will not discuss men and their animal companions unless there's some gender issue involved. ie, no discussion of Ged and his otak.]
I know that most of you, sadly, will not be present for these panels. (If you're lucky, someone will take and post notes.) But since I got really rushed due to grad school and traineeships, please help me out by proposing thought-provoking questions and discussion topics on either or both of these subjects. If I like them (and I'm modding) I'll put them to the panel.
The Huntress and the Dude in Distress: Gender Roles in The Hunger Games
Rachel Manija Brown, Faye Bi, Marie Brennan, Artemis Grey, Shveta Thakrar
This panel will discuss gender and gender roles as they relate to characters in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy. We will focus our discussion on the changing roles of Katniss, Gale, and Peeta, but will also explore gender roles as they pertain to secondary characters and to the societies of Panem.
[NOTE: Discussion will be spoilery for all three books.]
Women Who Run with Wolves and Dance with Dragons
Rachel Manija Brown, Cora Anderson, Janni Lee Simner
From the magic horses of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series to the psychic wolves of Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear’s A Companion to Wolves, fantasy novels have featured a wide variety of soul-bonded animal companions. These bonds, which range from wish-fulfillment fantasy to outright horror, are as diverse as the creatures themselves. This panel will discuss the tropes and themes of the animal companion motif, and explore the metaphoric nature of the bonds between women and their very special animals.
[NOTE: Bear and Monette's series was mentioned because it explicitly deals with gender roles; however, we'll discuss both women with animal companions, and any gender issues which involve animal companions. We will not discuss men and their animal companions unless there's some gender issue involved. ie, no discussion of Ged and his otak.]
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Wikipedia says that the author doesn't know why. I actually find it odder that the external manifestation of your soul is almost-always the opposite sex of you, actually.
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If the idea is that, say, a cisgendered woman would have a male daemon (her masculine side), then a person with a same-sex daemon might already be expressing "opposite-sex" traits - transgendered, androgynous, or just very much in touch with their other-gendered side.
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I think Pullman was probably thinking of Jung's idea of the anima/animus - (cis) women have an inner image of the masculine self, and (cis) men have an inner image of the feminine self.
Post-Jung theorists have elaborated on those ideas to include everyone, not just straight cis people. A trans man who's a professor at Antioch said, IIRC, that a trans man would have an anima, not an animus, because it's about your inner image of what you believe to be the opposite sex as you, if you believe in the idea of opposite sexes. (There are also inner same-sex figures, which manifest differently depending on your sexual orientation. If you're bisexual, both the same and different-sex figures would be sexually charged.)
(I took a class on this last quarter, so I have Jung on the brain.)