Science fiction women before liberation / Eric S. Rabkin -- Alexei Panshin's almost non-sexist rite of passage / Anne Hudson Jones -- 'She pluck'd, she eat' / James D. Merritt -- Woman as nature in science fiction / Scott Sanders -- Coming home : four feminist utopias and patriarchal experience / Carl Pearson -- Recent feminist utopias / Joanna Russ -- A footnote to Russ's 'Recent feminist utopias' / Robert Scholes -- An ambiguous legacy : the role and position of women in the English eutopia / Lyman Tower Sargent -- A woman appeared / Suzy McKee Charnas -- In and out of time : the form of Marge Piercy's novels / Susan Kress -- You, U.K. Le Guin / Norman N. Holland -- Charles Bronson, samurai, and other feminine images : a trasnsactive response to The left hand of darkness / Marleen S. Barr -- A female captain's enterprise : the implications of Star trek's 'turnabout intruder' / Edward Whetmore -- A personal response to Whetmore's 'A female captain's enterprise' / Arthur Asa Berger -- Where's all the fiction in science fiction / Jeffrey Berman -- The future females / Roger C. Schlobin