Creating Gender in Linear and nonlinear texts

Patchwork Girl

  Patchwork Girl is very different from Victory Gardens. Whilst it is also a hypertext, it gives the reader full control of the possible 'readings'. This freedom of navigation adds to the female tone of the text.
  The text is rich in detail and in emotion-provoking imagery. All the key characters are female and narrative voice is used on several levels; as direct narration by the characters and also as a voice, ostensibly the author, discussing the construction of the text.
The whole tone of the text is female. It is gentle and organic.
 

The authorial voice as narrator, the Patchwork Girl and Mary Shelley all emerge as complex female characters.

The Patchwork Girl of Oz is less developed.

Patchwork Girl is about creation and birth, female themes, whereas Victory Gardens is about death and destruction. It is very masculine in tone.