Women, on the edge of time
Article in today's Guardian G2 section on the absence of women from time travel movies.
Which, if so, is odd, because in written sff, women have long been writing time travel narratives, often featuring female characters, even if some of them fall into the YA category (e.g. Nesbit, Uttley, Mitchison) and thus (perhaps) even further off the map. Ditto, perhaps, a similarly long-standing tradition of time-travel romance (going back at least to Margaret Irwin, and I am quite willing to believe that she hardly invented it).
On another paw, perhaps not so odd, as the narratives I can think of are not, on the whole, slam-bang boys'-own adventures but raise issues of more complexity, ethical density, etc; not to mention the whole OMG We're Somehow In The Wrong Time-Line trope.
I can't immediately think of any time-travel narratives by women which I've read that would really readily turn into all-action fun movies. What with the sinister manipulating organisations like Russ's TransTemp and Kage Baker's Zeus (Co? Inc? can't offhand remember), or the being stranded in plague struck C14th village, or, of course, Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time, just not your boys'-own adventure, really.
I am not sure whether this is entirely an issue of gender, as I daresay that given adequate time I could think of complex time-travel works by male authors, or featuring male leads (? du Maurier's House on the Strand, I think?), but more about the difference between written and filmed sff.
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