Title Where no man has gone before : women and science fiction / edited by Lucie Armitt

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1991

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Description 234 pages ; 22 cm Contents The loss of the feminine principle in Charlotte Haldane's Man's world and Katherine Burdekin's Swastika night / Elizabeth Russell -- 'Shambleau...and others' : the role of the female in the fiction of C.L. Moore / Sarah Gamble -- Remaking the Old World : Ursula Le Guin and the American tradition / Susan Bassnett -- Doris Lessing and the politics of violence / Moira Monteith -- Mary and the monster : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Maureen Duffy's Gor saga / Jenny Newman -- Pets and monsters : metamorphoses in recent science fiction / Lisa Tuttle -- Between the boys and their toys : the science fiction film / Susan Thomas -- Your word is my command : the structures of language and power in women's science fiction / Lucie Armitt -- 'I'm not in the business : I am the business' : women at work in Hollywood science fiction / Erica Sheen -- Writing science fiction for the teenage reader / Gwyneth Jones -- Sex, sub-atomic particles and sociology / Sarah Lefanu -- Maeve and Guinevere : women's fantasy writing in the science fiction marketplace / Nickianne Moody -- 'Goodbye to all that...' / Josephine Saxton Analysis Science fiction in English - Critical studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [218]-224) and index Subject American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Science fiction, American -- History and criticism. Science fiction, American -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Science fiction, English -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- English-speaking countries. Women and literature -- Great Britain. Women and literature -- United States. Author Armitt, Lucie, 1962- LC no. 90008200 ISBN 0415044472 (hb) 0415044480 (pb)

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