| Description |
xi, 231 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword : Marleen Barr's Lost and Found / Marge Piercy -- Introduction : Patriarchal hocus-pocus -- Part I. Before feminist fabulation : feminist science fiction -- Ch. 1. Thelma and Louise : driving toward feminist science fiction -- ch.2. Anne McCaffrey portrays a female artist -- ch.3. Suzy McKee Charnas, Sally Gearhart, and Marge Piercy depict sex and the single feminist Utopian quasi-tribesperson -- ch.4. Jessica Amanda Salmonson's "The Prodigal Daughter" and feminist science fiction's traditions -- ch.5. Science fiction's invisible female men : Joanna Russ's "When it changed" and James Tiptree's "The women men don't see" -- ch.6. Men in feminist science fiction : Marge Piercy, Thomas Berger, and the end of masculinity -- ch.7. Suzy McKee Charnas, Zoë Fairbairns, Katherine Marcuse, and Kate Wilhelm blur generic conventions : pregnancy and power in feminist science fiction -- Part II. After feminist fabulation : feminist postmodernism -- ch. 8. Octavia Butler and James Tiptree do not write about zap guns : positioning feminist science fiction within feminist fabulation -- ch. 9. Antipatriarchal fabulation; or, the green pencils are coming, the green pencils are coming -- ch. 10. Haroun and seeing women's stories : Salman Rushdie and Marianne Wiggins -- ch. 11. Ursula Le Guin's "Sur" as examplary humanist and antihumanist text -- ch. 12. Aliens, airplanes, and cultural cross-dressing : reading Buchi Emecheta, Haruki Murakami, and Paul Theroux -- ch. 13. Ms. Sammler's planet : Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, and Joanna Russ rescue the female child's story. |
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, English -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Feminist fiction -- History and criticism.
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Sex role in literature.
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| Indexed Term |
Science fiction |
| ISBN |
080782108X alkaline paper |
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0807844217 paperback alkaline paper |
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