| Description |
xi, 231 pages ; 25 cm |
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Foreword: Marleen Barr's Lost and Found / Marge Piercy -- Introduction: Patriarchal Hocus-Pocus -- Pt. 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, Zoe Fairbairns, Katherine Marcuse, and Kate Wilhelm Blur Generic Conventions: Pregnancy and Power in Feminist Science Fiction -- Pt. II. After Feminist Fabulation: Feminist Postmodernism |
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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 Exemplary 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 |
| Analysis |
Science fiction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Feminism and literature.
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Feminist fiction -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, American -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, English -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Sex role in literature.
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature.
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| LC no. |
93012466 |
| ISBN |
080782108X (alk. paper) |
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0807844217 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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