doi:10.3390/h9030058engAliaga Lavrijsen, JessicaPregnancy, childbirth and nursing in feminist dystopia: Marianne de Pierres’s Transformation space (2010)ART-2020-118484Marianne de Pierres’s Transformation Space (2010) is a rare example of an Australian novel set in an apocalyptic and dystopic interstellar future where pregnancy, childbearing and nursing have a presence that is quite uncommon in Science Fiction (SF). Despite the fact that the genre of SF and that of space opera in particular have been traditionally quite male-oriented, in the last years feminist theories of several kinds have been an undeniable transformative influence. This article intends to analyse not only how these specifically female issues related to motherhood/mothering are presented in the novel, but also to explore their function and role. A close reading of these topics will show whether they endorse a solid feminist stance or are just colourful feminist details in a male-dominated space opera and, in turn, if they have a specifically narrative purpose in the context of the dystopic subgenre.2020http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/9451110.3390/h9030058http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/94511oai:zaguan.unizar.es:94511info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H03-17Rinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FFI2017-84258-PHumanities 9, 3 (2020), 58 [13 pp.]byhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess