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Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism (1999)

by Helen Merrick (Editor, Contributor), Tess Williams (Editor, Contributor)

Other authors: Eleanor Arnason (Contributor), Freddie Baer (Cover artist), Lois McMaster Bujold (Contributor), Suzy McKee Charnas (Contributor), Bill Clemente (Contributor)26 more, Candas Jane Dorsey (Contributor), Suzette Haden Elgin (Contributor), Kelley Eskridge (Contributor), Karen Joy Fowler (Contributor), Lisbeth Gant-Britton (Contributor), Greer Gilman (Contributor), Jeanne Gomoll (Introduction), Nicola Griffith (Contributor), Eileen Gunn (Contributor), Rebecca J. Holden (Contributor), Nalo Hopkinson (Contributor), Gwyneth Jones (Contributor), Sylvia Kelso (Contributor), Justine Larbalestier (Contributor), Ursula K. Le Guin (Contributor), Rosaleen Love (Contributor), Katherine MacLean (Contributor), Rebecca Marjesdatter (Contributor), Judith Merril (Contributor), Pat Murphy (Contributor), Ellen Peel (Contributor), Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Contributor), Delia Sherman (Contributor), Jennifer Stevenson (Contributor), Susanna J. Sturgis (Contributor), Elisabeth Vonarburg (Contributor)

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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.… (more)
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Merrick, HelenEditor, Contributorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Williams, TessEditor, Contributormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Arnason, EleanorContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Baer, FreddieCover artistsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bujold, Lois McMasterContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Charnas, Suzy McKeeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Clemente, BillContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dorsey, Candas JaneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Elgin, Suzette HadenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Eskridge, KelleyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fowler, Karen JoyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gant-Britton, LisbethContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gilman, GreerContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gomoll, JeanneIntroductionsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Griffith, NicolaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gunn, EileenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Holden, Rebecca J.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hopkinson, NaloContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jones, GwynethContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kelso, SylviaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Love, RosaleenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Merril, JudithContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Peel, EllenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Salmonson, Jessica AmandaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Sherman, DeliaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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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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Contains:
  • An Envoy from Senectutus: Wiscon 20 Guest of Honour Speech / Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Handwork / Rebecca Marjesdatter
  • The Small Black Box of Morality / Eleanor Arnason
  • Reading Piebald Patterns in Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness / Ellen Peel
  • And She Was the Word / Tess Williams
  • Of Women and Wonder: A Conversation with Suzy McKee Charnas / Bill Clemente
  • A Beauty, a Phantom, and Two Talking Heads: The Psychology of Confinement in Suzy McKee Charnas' Beauty and the Opéra / Jennifer Stevenson
  • Notes of a Border Crosser / Susanna Sturgis
  • From Female Man to Feminist Fan: Uncovering "Herstory" in the Annals of SF Fandom / Helen Merrick
  • A Non-Traveller Spends a Month Away from Home / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • And Salomé Danced / Kelley Eskridge
  • The Erotics of Gender Ambiguity: A Fem-SF Symposium / Helen Merrick
  • The Kidnapping of Baroness 5 / Katherine MacLean
  • Of Synners and Brainworms: Feminism on the Wire / Rebecca Holden
  • Home by the Sea / Élisabeth Vonarburg
  • Writing from the Body / Nicola Griffith
  • A Habit of Waste / Nalo Hopkinson
  • Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower: One Alternative to a Futureless Future / Lisbeth Gant-Britton
  • Excerpt from The Freedom Maze / Delia Sherman
  • Hush My Mouth / Suzette Haden Elgin
  • The Onion Skin Theory of Identity, the Paint Pot Theory of Gender, and the Blu-Tack Theory of Position / Rosaleen Love
  • The Universe of Things / Gwyneth Jones
  • Illusion and Expectation: The Baking of a Science Fiction Award / Pat Murphy
  • Ideologically Labile Fruit Crisp / Eileen Gunn
  • Tiptree Stories / Justine Larbalestier
  • The Marianas Islands / Karen Joy Fowler
  • Letterspace: In the Chinks Between
  • Published Fiction and Published Criticism / Lois McMaster Bujold, Sylvia Kelso
  • Dvorzjak Symphony / Candas Jane Dorsey
  • She Undoes / Greer Gilman
  • Better to Have Loved: Excerpts from a Life / Judith Merrild
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