The Sense of Gender Awards are annual awards given by the Japanese Association for Gender, Fantasy & Science Fiction for the science fiction or fantasy fiction published in the Japanese language in the prior year which best "explore and deepen the concept of Gender." The organization is also known as the Japanese Association for Feminist Fantasy and Science Fiction. The award and organization were founded by science fiction critic Mari Kotani, professional SF reviewer Reona Kashiwazaki and Noriko Maki, the chair of the Japanese science fiction fandom confederation. They are sometimes called the "Japanese Tiptree Awards".
Past winners include Fumi Yoshinaga and Eileen Gunn.
Famous quotes containing the words sense of, sense and/or gender:
“A person, seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity: while the haughty Dogmatist, persuaded that he can erect a compleat system of Theology by the mere help of philosophy, disdains any further aid, and rejects this adventitious instructor.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“Lips that sealed up the sense from gnawing time
Now beg the favor with a graveyard grin.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)
“Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered “men’s work” is almost universally given higher status than “women’s work.” If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.”
—Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Excerpted from, Gender Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World (1990)