The representation of women in Eric Barnes's above the ether (2019)‎

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This article examines Eric Barnes’s above the ether (2019) from a feminist perspective.

it relies on climate change fiction and feminism as a theoretical framework.

it investigates the sufferings and struggles of women in a post-apocalyptic world, which is induced by climate change.

this novel is set in an environment where there are different natural disasters as floods, bad weather and earthquakes.

there is a total absence of law and government that protects people, especially women.

therefore, women are either discriminated and abused or left alone.

this study attempts to put emphasis on different female characters.

it puts emphasis on the father and his wife, the investor, the doctor’s wife, the stranger and an unnamed woman to highlight their sufferings in the post-apocalypse.

it shows how these women’s experience when it comes to their relationships with their husbands, colleagues or, which can be either a positive or negative one.