Frontmatter and Editorial

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the editorial:

While the three previous issues of the Early Career Researchers series of gender forum featured a topically diverse collection of essays, the submissions for this year’s issue spoke to two particular fields of interest that are currently engaging young academics. One centres on problematic and subversive representations of gender in current and cult TV shows, and the other on the rise of feminist material in science fiction. One half of this issue thus speaks to a recent trend that is continuously gaining ground in scholarly analysis, while the other expands on a well-documented area of research that has its origin in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.