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Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (1995 2000), an award-winning fantasy trilogy, is prominent among recent children’s literature in the U.K. and the U.S. One of the most intriguing features of Pullman’s series is its brave reinvention of gender representation. In His Dark Materials conventional gender roles are denaturalized and overthrown. Eve, the stereotypical female figure, is taken apart from the Holy Bible, re-inscribed and reassembled to form a fresh and subversive ideological configuration. Pullman’s rewriting of Eve has, in many ways, transgressed traditional gender boundaries, implicating new possibilities in gender representation. With the aim of raising gender awareness, in this article I will compare the parallel yet drastically different biblical pre-text and re-version, showing how gender borders are transgressed and female stereotypes re-written, reinterpreted and re-invented in Pullman’s trilogy. First of all, the source which Pullman based his series on, i.e. the representation of Eve in Genesis, will be examined. A discussion of gender stereotypes arising from the Eden myth will also be looked into. From themes such as Adam and Eve in Eden before the Fall of Man, to what happens in the Fall and the consequences of the Fall, I will discuss how Pullman subverts the Myth of the Fall in the Holy Bible and introduces a new gender configuration through Lyra Belacqua, the new Eve in His Dark Materials.

Transgressing the gender borders: the subversive re-inscription of Eve in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials