Khatru Symposium Women In Science Fiction

Author : Jeanne Gomoll
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 9780557095414

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Khatru Symposium: Women in Science Fiction by Jeanne Gomoll Pdf

Originally published and edited by Jeffrey D. Smith in 1975, Khatru 3&4's symposium on women in science fiction was a detailed conversation among some of the most well-known authors of 70s feminist science fiction, including Suzy McKee Charnas, Samuel R. Delany, Vonda N. McIntyre, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr. (before her true identity of Alice B. Sheldon was known), Kate Wilhelm, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and others, The opinions expressed by participants are still radical today. This 1993 update of the symposium includes new material by some of the original participants and commentary by others, including Pat Murphy, Karen Joy Fowler, Gwyneth Jones, and Jeanne Gomoll. Cover by Judith M Weiss, illustrations by Georgie Schnobrich.

Author : Justine Larbalestier
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081956527X

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The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction by Justine Larbalestier Pdf

How women and feminism helped to shape science fiction in America.

Author : Jeffrey D. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : OCLC:2701783

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Women in Science Fiction by Jeffrey D. Smith Pdf

Author : Robin Anne Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313054747

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Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy [2 volumes] by Robin Anne Reid Pdf

Works of science fiction and fantasy increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. This book examines women's contributions to science fiction and fantasy across a range of media and genres, such as fiction, nonfiction, film, television, art, comics, graphic novels, and music. The first volume offers survey essays on major topics, such as sexual identities, fandom, women's writing groups, and feminist spirituality; the second provides alphabetically arranged entries on more specific subjects, such as Hindu mythology, Toni Morrison, magical realism, and Margaret Atwood. Entries are written by expert contributors and cite works for further reading, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students and general readers love science fiction and fantasy. And science fiction and fantasy works increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. Older works demonstrate attitudes toward women in times past, while more recent works grapple with contemporary social issues. This book helps students use science fiction and fantasy to understand the contributions of women writers, the representation of women in the media, and the experiences of women in society.

Author : Lisa Yaszek
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598537581

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The Future Is Female! Volume Two, The 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Storie s by Women by Lisa Yaszek Pdf

Go back to The Future Is Female in this all new collection of wildly entertaining stories by the trailblazing feminist writers who transformed American science fiction in the 1970s In the 1970s, feminist authors created a new mode of science fiction in defiance of the “baboon patriarchy”—Ursula Le Guin’s words—that had long dominated the genre, imagining futures that are still visionary. In this sequel to her groundbreaking 2018 anthology The Future is Female!: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek offers a time machine back to the decade when far-sighted rebels changed science fiction forever with stories that made female community, agency, and sexuality central to the American future. Here are twenty-three wild, witty, and wonderful classics that dramatize the liberating energies of the 1970s: Sonya Dorman, “Bitching It” (1971) Kate Wilhelm, “The Funeral” (1972) Joanna Russ, “When It Changed” (1972) NEBULA AWARD Miriam Allen deFord, “A Way Out”(1973) Vonda N. McIntyre, “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand” (1973) NEBULA James Tiptree, Jr., “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” (1973) HUGO AWARD Kathleen Sky, “Lament of the Keeku Bird” (1973) Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Day Before the Revolution” (1974) NEBULA & LOCUS AWARD Eleanor Arnason, “The Warlord of Saturn’s Moons” (1974) Kathleen M. Sidney, “The Anthropologist” (1975) Marta Randall, “A Scarab in the City of Time” (1975) Elinor Busby, “A Time to Kill” (1977) Raccoona Sheldon, “The Screwfly Solution” (1977) NEBULA AWARD Pamela Sargent, “If Ever I Should Leave You” (1974) Joan D. Vinge, “View from a Height” (1978) M. Lucie Chin, “The Best Is Yet to Be” (1978) Lisa Tuttle, “Wives” (1979) Connie Willis, “Daisy, In the Sun” (1979)

Author : Jeanne Cortiel
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0853236143

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Demand My Writing by Jeanne Cortiel Pdf

In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF, especially in its concern with the function of woman-based intertextuality. Although Cortiel deals principally with Russ’s novels, she also examines her short stories, and the focus on critically neglected texts is a particularly valuable feature of the study. "I recommend this book to any reader interested in Russ’s fiction, or in women’s science fiction generally."—Science Fiction Studies

Author : Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781317793557

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Dark Horizons by Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini Pdf

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Gwyneth Jones
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252051487

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Joanna Russ by Gwyneth Jones Pdf

Experimental, strange, and unabashedly feminist, Joanna Russ's groundbreaking science fiction grew out of a belief that the genre was ideal for expressing radical thought. Her essays and criticism, meanwhile, helped shape the field and still exercise a powerful influence in both SF and feminist literary studies.Award-winning author and critic Gwyneth Jones offers a new appraisal of Russ's work and ideas. After years working in male-dominated SF, Russ emerged in the late 1960s with Alyx, the uber-capable can-do heroine at the heart of Picnic on Paradise and other popular stories and books. Soon, Russ's fearless embrace of gender politics and life as an out lesbian made her a target for male outrage while feminist classics like The Female Man and The Two of Them took SF in innovative new directions. Jones also delves into Russ's longtime work as a critic of figures as diverse as Lovecraft and Cather, her foundational place in feminist fandom, important essays like "Amor Vincit Foeminam," and her career in academia.

Author : Brian Attebery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317971474

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Decoding Gender in Science Fiction by Brian Attebery Pdf

From Frankenstein to futuristic feminist utopias, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction examines the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored, and revised conventional notions of sexual difference. Attebery traces a fascinating history of men's and women's writing that covertly or overtly investigates conceptions of gender, suggesting new perspectives on the genre.

Author : Thomas Moylan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429977039

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Scraps Of The Untainted Sky by Thomas Moylan Pdf

Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination. From the classical works by E. M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of hell in postwar science fiction, and most recently in the dystopian turn of the 1980s and 1990s, this narrative machine has produced challenging cognitive maps of the given historical situation by way of imaginary societies which are even worse than those that lie outside their authors' and readers' doors.In Scraps of the Untainted Sky , Tom Moylan offers a thorough investigation of the history and aesthetics of dystopia. To situate his study, Moylan sets out the methodological paradigm that developed within the interdisciplinary fields of science fiction studies and utopian studies as they grow out of the oppositional political culture of the 1960 and 1970s (the context that produced the project of cultural studies itself). He then presents a thorough account of the textual structure and formal operations of the dystopian text. From there, he focuses on the new science-fictional dystopias that emerged in the context of the economic, political, and cultural convulsions of the 1980s and 1990s, and he examines in detail three of these new "critical dystopias:" Kim Stanley Robinson's The Gold Coast, Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower , and Marge Piercy's He, She, and It .With its detailed, documented, and yet accessible presentation, Scraps of the Untainted Sky will be of interest to established scholars as well as students and general readers who are seeking an in-depth introduction to this important area of cultural production.

Author : Joan Passey,Robert Lloyd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350361133

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Shirley Jackson’s Dark Tales by Joan Passey,Robert Lloyd Pdf

The first dedicated exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson for three decades, this volume takes an in-depth look at the themes and legacies of her 200-plus short stories. Recognized as the mother of contemporary horror, scholars from across the globe, and from a range of different disciplinary backgrounds, dig into the lasting impact of her work in light of its increasing relevance to contemporary critical preoccupations and the re-release of Jackson's work in 2016. Offering new methodologies to study her work, this volume calls upon ideas of intertextuality, ecocriticism and psychoanalysis to examine a broad range of themes from national identity, race, gender and class to domesticity, the occult, selfhood and mental illness. With consideration of her blockbuster works alongside later works that received much less critical attention, Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales promises a rich and dynamic expansion on previous scholarship of Jackson's oeuvre, both bringing her writing into the contemporary conversation, and ensuring her place in the canon of Horror fiction.

Author : James Gunn,Marleen Barr,Matthew Candelaria
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137078988

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Reading Science Fiction by James Gunn,Marleen Barr,Matthew Candelaria Pdf

Science Fiction is illuminated by world class scholars and fiction writers, who introduce the history, concepts and contexts necessary to understanding the genre. Their groundbreaking approach provides insights into today's SF world and makes learning how to read Science Fiction an exciting collaborative process for teachers and students.

Author : Eric Leif Davin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0739112678

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Partners in Wonder by Eric Leif Davin Pdf

'Partners in Wonder' explores our knowledge of women and science fiction between 1936 and 1965. It describes the distinctly different form of science fiction that females produced, one that was both more utopian and more empathetic than that of their male counterparts.

Author : Mark Bould,Andrew Butler,Adam Roberts,Sherryl Vint
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781135228361

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The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction by Mark Bould,Andrew Butler,Adam Roberts,Sherryl Vint Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at: history – an integrated chronological narrative of the genre’s development theory – detailed accounts of major theoretical approaches including feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism and utopian studies issues and challenges – anticipates future directions for study in areas as diverse as science studies, music, design, environmentalism, ethics and alterity subgenres – a prismatic view of the genre, tracing themes and developments within specific subgenres. Bringing into dialogue the many perspectives on the genre The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and the future of science fiction and the way it is taught and studied.

Author : Edward James,Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521016576

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The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction by Edward James,Farah Mendlesohn Pdf

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