Women Science And Fiction Revisited

Author : Debra Benita Shaw
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031251719

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Women, Science and Fiction Revisited by Debra Benita Shaw Pdf

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited is an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years from the point of view of their engagement with how science writes the world. Beginning with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1918) and ending with N K Jemisin's The City We Became (2020), Debra Benita Shaw explores the re-imagination of gender and race that characterises women's literary crafting of new worlds. Along the way, she introduces new readings of classics like Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, examining the original novels in the context of their adaptation to new media formats in the twenty-first century. What this reveals is a consistent preoccupation with how scientific ideas can be employed to challenge existing social structures and argue for change.

Author : Jane L. Donawerth,Carol A. Kolmerten
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815626207

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Utopian and Science Fiction by Women by Jane L. Donawerth,Carol A. Kolmerten Pdf

This collection speaks to common themes and strategies in women's writing about their different worlds, from Margaret Cavendish's seventeenth-century Blazing World of the North Pole to the "men-less" islands of the French writer Scudery to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century utopias of Shelley and Gaskell, and science fiction pulps, finishing with the more contemporary feminist fictions of Le Guin, Wittig, Piercy, and Michison. It shows that these fictions historically speak to each other and together amount to a literary tradition of women's writing about a better place.

Author : Robin Anne Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Lucie Armitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780415521253

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Where No Man Has Gone Before by Lucie Armitt Pdf

How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women? To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics? From Mary Shelley onwards, women writers have played a central role in the shaping and reshaping of this genre, irrespective of its undeniably patriarchal image. Essays on the work of writers such as Doris Lessing and Ursula Le Guin, Katherine Burdekin, C. L. Moor, Suzette Elgin, Gwyneth Jones, Maureen Duffy and Josephine Saxton demonstrate that science fiction remains as particularly well-suited to the exploration of woman as 'alien' or 'other' in our culture today, as it was with the publication of Frankenstein in 1818.

Author : Debra Benita Shaw
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312236050

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Women, Science, and Fiction by Debra Benita Shaw Pdf

Women Writing Science Fiction: The Frankenstein Inheritance explores the relationship between women, science and fiction through an analysis of science fiction written by women from the turn of the century to the mid 1980s.

Author : Lisa Yaszek
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598535853

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The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pio neers to Ursula K. Le Guin by Lisa Yaszek Pdf

Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more: a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960s SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the biggest and best survey of the female tradition in American science fiction ever published, a thrilling collection of twenty-five classic tales. From Pulp Era pioneers to New Wave experimentalists, here are over two dozen brilliant writers ripe for discovery and rediscovery, including Leslie F. Stone, Judith Merril, Leigh Brackett, Kit Reed, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., and Ursula K. Le Guin. Imagining strange worlds and unexpected futures, looking into and beyond new technologies and scientific discoveries, in utopian fantasies and tales of cosmic horror, these women created and shaped speculative fiction as surely as their male counterparts. Their provocative, mind-blowing stories combine to form a thrilling multidimensional voyage of literary-feminist exploration and recovery. CONTENTS Introduction by LISA YASZEK CLARE WINGER HARRIS The Miracle of the Lily (1928) LESLIE F. STONE The Conquest of Gola (1931) C. L. MOORE The Black God’s Kiss (1934) LESLIE PERRI Space Episode (1941) JUDITH MERRIL That Only a Mother (1948) WILMAR H. SHIRAS In Hiding (1948) KATHERINE MACLEAN Contagion (1950) MARGARET ST. CLAIR The Inhabited Men (1951) ZENNA HENDERSON Ararat (1952) ANDREW NORTH All Cats Are Gray (1953) ALICE ELEANOR JONES Created He Them (1955) MILDRED CLINGERMAN Mr. Sakrison’s Halt (1956) LEIGH BRACKETT All the Colors of the Rainbow (1957) CAROL EMSHWILLER Pelt (1958) ROSEL GEORGE BROWN Car Pool (1959) ELISABETH MANN BORGESE For Sale, Reasonable (1959) DORIS PITKIN BUCK Birth of a Gardner (1961) ALICE GLASER The Tunnel Ahead (1961) KIT REED The New You (1962) JOHN JAY WELLS & MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY Another Rib (1963) SONYA DORMAN When I Was Miss Dow (1966) KATE WILHELM Baby, You Were Great (1967) JOANNA RUSS The Barbarian (1968) JAMES TIPTREE JR. The Last Flight of Dr. Ain (1969) URSULA K. LE GUIN Nine Lives (1969)

Author : Lucie Armitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0415044480

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Where No Man Has Gone Before by Lucie Armitt Pdf

Traces the history of science fiction written by women, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to the present day. In addition to essays on novels, this collection addresses the science fiction film and its implications for women.

Author : Brian Attebery
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 041593950X

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Decoding Gender in Science Fiction by Brian Attebery Pdf

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

Author : Lisa Yaszek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124039970

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Galactic Suburbia by Lisa Yaszek Pdf

In this groundbreaking cultural history, Lisa Yaszek recovers a lost tradition of women's science fiction that flourished after 1945. This new kind of science fiction was set in a place called galactic suburbia, a literary frontier that was home to nearly 300 women writers. These authors explored how women's lives, loves, and work were being transformed by new sciences and technologies, thus establishing women's place in the American future imaginary.Yaszek shows how the authors of galactic suburbia rewrote midcentury culture's assumptions about women's domestic, political, and scientific lives. Her case studies of luminaries such as Judith Merril, Carol Emshwiller, and Anne McCaffrey and lesser-known authors such as Alice Eleanor Jones, Mildred Clingerman, and Doris Pitkin Buck demonstrate how galactic suburbia is the world's first literary tradition to explore the changing relations of gender, science, and society.Galactic Suburbia challenges conventional literary histories that posit men as the progenitors of modern science fiction and women as followers who turned to the genre only after the advent of the women's liberation movement. AsYaszek demonstrates, stories written by women about women in galactic suburbia anticipated the development of both feminist science fiction and domestic science fiction written by men.

Author : Jane L. Donawerth
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 081562686X

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Frankenstein's Daughters by Jane L. Donawerth Pdf

Donawerth takes a comprehensive look at the field and explores the works of authors such as Mary Shelley, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Anne McCaffrey.

Author : Karen Hellekson,Craig B. Jacobsen,Patrick B. Sharp
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786457830

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Practicing Science Fiction by Karen Hellekson,Craig B. Jacobsen,Patrick B. Sharp Pdf

Drawn from the Science Fiction Research Association conference held in Lawrence, Kansas, in 2008, the essays in this volume address intersections among the reading, writing, and teaching of science fiction. Part 1 studies the teaching of SF, placing analytical and pedagogical research next to each other to reveal how SF can be both an object of study as well as a teaching tool for other disciplines. Part 2 examines SF as a genre of mediation between the sciences and the humanities, using close readings and analyses of the literary-scientific nexus. Part 3 examines SF in the media, using specific television programs, graphic novels, and films as examples of how SF successfully transcends the medium of transmission. Finally, Part 4 features close readings of SF texts by women, including Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Octavia E. Butler.

Author : Emily Cox-Palmer-White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000329704

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The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction by Emily Cox-Palmer-White Pdf

Questioning essentialist forms of feminist discourse, this work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist and gender theorists, such as Judith Butler and Donna Haraway, and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze. By analysing representations of the female cyborg figure, the gynoid, in science fiction literature, television, film and videogames, the work acknowledges its normative and subversive properties while also calling for a new feminist politics of selfhood and autonomy implied by the posthuman qualities of the female machine.

Author : Sarah Lefanu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041014734

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Feminism and Science Fiction by Sarah Lefanu Pdf

Author : Susan Watkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137486509

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Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Susan Watkins Pdf

This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women’s work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality.

Author : Pamela Sargent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:320873878

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Women of Wonder by Pamela Sargent Pdf