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Lost in space : probing feminist science fiction and beyond
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- Creator
- by Marleen Barr
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, [1993]
- ©1993
- Physical Details
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- [xiii], 231 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807821084, 080782108X, 9780807844212, 0807844217
- OCLC
- ocm27725978
- Foreword: Marleen Barr's Lost and Found / Marge Piercy -- Introduction: Patriarchal Hocus-Pocus -- Pt. I. Before Feminist Fabulation: Feminist Science Fiction. Ch. 1. Thelma and Louise: Driving toward Feminist Science Fiction. Ch. 2. Anne McCaffrey Portrays a Female Artist. Ch. 3. Suzy McKee Charnas, Sally Gearhart, and Marge Piercy Depict Sex and the Single Feminist Utopian Quasi-tribesperson. Ch. 4. Jessica Amanda Salmonson's "The Prodigal Daughter" and Feminist Science Fiction's Traditions. Ch. 5. Science Fiction's Invisible Female Men: Joanna Russ's "When It Changed" and James Tiptree's "The Women Men Don't See," Ch. 6. Men in Feminist Science Fiction: Marge Piercy, Thomas Berger, and the End of Masculinity. Ch. 7. Suzy McKee Charnas, Zoe Fairbairns, Katherine Marcuse, and Kate Wilhelm Blur Generic Conventions: Pregnancy and Power in Feminist Science Fiction -- Pt. II. After Feminist Fabulation: Feminist Postmodernism. Ch. 8. Octavia Butler and James Tiptree Do Not Write about Zap Guns: Positioning Feminist Science Fiction within Feminist Fabulation. Ch. 9. Antipatriarchal Fabulation; or, The Green Pencils Are Coming, the Green Pencils Are Coming. Ch. 10. Haroun and Seeing Women's Stories: Salman Rushdie and Marianne Wiggins. Ch. 11. Ursula Le Guin's "Sur" as Exemplary Humanist and Antihumanist Text. Ch. 12. Aliens, Airplanes, and Cultural Cross-dressing: Reading Buchi Emecheta, Haruki Murakami, and Paul Theroux. Ch. 13. Ms. Sammler's Planet: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, and Joanna Russ Rescue the Female Child's Story