Women of Other Worlds

Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism

By: Helen Merrick, Tess Williams

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Paperback | 1 October 1999

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Feminist science fiction is a rich space at the intersection of popular literature and feminist thought. This book examines this phenomenon, collecting work from all aspects of feminist SF - fiction poetry, criticism, fan-writing, even a recipe. It presents an international sampler of a vibrant form of women's writing.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Anthologies (non-poetry)Fiction Science Fiction

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
An envoy from Senectutus: WisCon 20 guest of honour speech	p. 12
Handwork	p. 20
The small black box of morality	p. 24
Reading piebald patterns in Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness	p. 29
And she was the word	p. 41
Of women and wonder: a conversation with Suzy McKee Charnas	p. 60
A beauty, a phantom, and two talking heads: the psychology of confinement in Suzy McKee Charnas' 'Beauty and the Opera	p. 82
Notes of a border crosser	p. 102
From female man to feminist fan: uncovering 'herstory' in the annals of sf fandom	p. 115
A non-traveller spends a month away from home	p. 140
And Salome danced	p. 147
The erotics of gender ambiguity: a Fem-SF symposium	p. 162
The kidnapping of Baroness 5	p. 184
Of synners and brainworms: feminism on the wire	p. 209
Home by the sea	p. 228
Writing from the body	p. 247
A habit of waste	p. 261
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower: one alternative to a futureless future	p. 277
Excerpt from The freedom maze	p. 295
Hush my mouth	p. 309
The onion skin theory of identity, the paint pot theory of gender, and the Blu-tack theory of position	p. 319
The universe of things	p. 329
Illusion and expectation: the baking of a science fiction award	p. 342
Ideologically labile fruit crisp	p. 351
Tiptree stories	p. 355
The Marianas Islands	p. 370
Letterspace: in the chinks between published fiction and published criticism	p. 383
Dvorzjak symphony	p. 410
She undoes	p. 419
Better to have loved: excerpts from a life	p. 422
Supplementary bibliography: Select list of additional critical resources on feminist SF	p. 443
Selected list of feminist SF	p. 462
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