“ Star Wars is only for boys”, summoned me a few weeks ago my four year old daughter. “Why?” I asked back in astonishment. “The Moritz has said.” Moritz, which is one of their good friends at the daycare center, and it is not yet noticed five and rather delicately through my pronounced machismo. But well, children have sometimes idiosyncratic ideas about gender – they are finally in the orientation phase. Moreover, one has to make allowances for Moritz that he can see the awakening of power , which hits theaters on Thursday, of course, does not yet have the latest Star Wars movie . If he ever sees the films in Star Wars , and not rather the Lego figures.
Regarding the previous six films, one might its judgment perhaps even to some degree agree. The two trilogies of the seventies / eighties and the nineties from / noughties years is clearly something Jung exemplary as its own. Star Wars , this cross between nigh classic epic tale with fantasy elements and traditional US-American Western, is pretty male occupied. Are mythical figurations as the conflict between father and son (Darth- “I am your father” -Vader against Luke Skywalker), a knightly caste society with their Jedi Knights and saving princesses and shoot-outs in the stars with Cowboys as Han Solo abound in them.
What other hand, hardly ever occurs, are women. Although the two trilogies with Princess Leia and Padme Amidala each have a hairstyle technically incredibly interesting female protagonist in a central location, but next to and behind these protagonists, it appears in the Star Wars -Galaxie distant barely female specimens under to give such a diverse alien species. Pro trilogy can be the female supporting characters, including extras-hundred droves, each count almost exactly on one hand. And meticulous searchers have the total speaking time of women other than Princess Leia calculated in the 386 minutes of the first three films. They came in a spectacular 63 seconds.
Now there are many film and storytelling genres that are traditionally dominated by men, and in this respect it is not surprising when a space Western shows especially male fighters. But Star Wars is not only epic, mythology, Western and fantasy, but also science fiction, it imagines worlds behind our horizon, in the vastness of the universe. It develops technologically incredibly advanced scenarios. And it paints a incredibly-reaching and loving detail fantasy planets, star systems and especially aliens from all kinds. The fact that this detail of the genders represented remains regarding so one-sided that all the effort that went into the creation of the motley Aliens, has spawned so no female specimens is then astonishing.
Or not. Finally us fantasy and science fiction movies always say much more about the world in which they were made, as on the imaginary of their worlds. Because if they do not realistically represent our respective social relations, they do show what we can barely imagine each plausible. And Star Wars provides us with its longevity now soon 40 years visuals on what was thinkable in terms of gender relations.
About” 8:10 “
Women now also in the evening to 8:10 , on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, political, poetic, polemical.
We, the editors of 8:10, are a versatile and changeable authors collective. We find that our society needs more female voices in public. We think that these voices should be divers. We represent any ideology and disagree. But we believe feminism is important, because justice in society concerns us all. We want to share with our readers. And with our guest authors.
Here are all the texts that appear 8:10 .
About the Authors
The editors of 8:10 consists of:
Ulrike Demmer , journalist
Marion Detjen , a contemporary historian
Hella Dietz , a sociologist
Heike-Melba Fendel , author and owner of the artist and event agency Barbarella Entertainment
Annett Gröschner , a freelance writer
Masha Jacobs , journalist, editor of the journal Pop. Culture and criticism.
Stefanie Lohaus , journalist, editor of the Missy Magazine
Lina Muzur , Program Director the structure publishing
Catherine Newmark , a cultural journalist
Annika Reich , writer
Elisabeth Weller House , journalist
First, there are the seventies and eighties, the peak period of the second women’s movement. They gave us, together with a still fairly machoiden Han Solo and an all-male combat world also quite tough Princess Leia. Only at the very beginning it has a classic Damsel in Distress be freed from the youthful hero, then it is developing rapidly to active campaigner and makes every shootout with. And even directs – almost singular in Hollywood mainstream cinema – at a “bike scene” the speeder while Luke sits in the back. That you have to give to Luke during the whole scene from behind superfluous instructions thinks the emancipatory imagery detracts only marginally.
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