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Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism
Women of Other Worlds Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism
ISBN-13: 9781876268329
ISBN-10: 1876268328
Publication Date: 12/1999
Pages: 472
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Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Book Type: Paperback
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* xiii ⢠Preface (Women of Other Worlds) ⢠essay by Helen Merrick and Tess Williams
* 1 ⢠Introduction: Visualizing the Future (Women of Other Worlds) ⢠essay by Jeanne Gomoll
* 12 ⢠An Envoy from Senectutus: WisCon 20 Guest of Honour Speech ⢠essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
* 20 ⢠Handwork ⢠poem by Rebecca Marjesdatter
* 24 ⢠The Small Black Box of Morality ⢠[Hwarhath] ⢠(1996) ⢠shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
* 29 ⢠Reading Piebald Patterns in Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness ⢠essay by Ellen Peel
* 41 ⢠And She Was the Word ⢠(1996) ⢠shortstory by Tess Williams
* 60 ⢠Of Women and Wonder: A Conversation with Suzy McKee Charnas ⢠essay by Bill Clemente
* 82 ⢠A Beauty, a Phantom, and Two Talking Heads: The Psychology of Confinement in Suzy McKee Charnas' 'Beauty and the Opéra' ⢠essay by Jennifer Stevenson
* 102 ⢠Notes of a Border Crosser ⢠essay by Susanna J. Sturgis
* 115 ⢠From Female Man to Feminist Fan: Uncovering Herstory in the Annals of SF Fandom ⢠essay by Helen Merrick
* 140 ⢠A Non-Traveller Spends a Month Away from Home ⢠essay by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
* 147 ⢠And Salome Danced ⢠(1994) ⢠shortstory by Kelley Eskridge
* 162 ⢠The Erotics of Gender Ambiguity: A Fem-SF Symposium ⢠essay by Helen Merrick
* 184 ⢠The Kidnapping of Baroness 5 ⢠(1995) ⢠novelette by Katherine MacLean
* 209 ⢠Of Synners and Brainworms: Feminism on the Wire ⢠essay by Rebecca Holden
* 228 ⢠Home by the Sea ⢠(1985) ⢠shortstory by Ãlisabeth Vonarburg
* 247 ⢠Writing from the Body ⢠essay by Nicola Griffith
* 261 ⢠A Habit of Waste ⢠(1996) ⢠shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
* 277 ⢠Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower: One Alternative to a Futureless Future ⢠essay by Lisbeth Gant-Britton
* 295 ⢠Excerpt (The Freedom Maze [draft]) ⢠shortfiction by Delia Sherman
* 309 ⢠Hush My Mouth ⢠(1986) ⢠shortstory by Suzette Haden Elgin
* 319 ⢠The Onion Skin Theory of Identity, the Paint Pot Theory of Gender, and the Blu-Tack Theory of Position ⢠essay by Rosaleen Love
* 329 ⢠The Universe of Things ⢠shortstory by Gwyneth Jones (aka The Mechanic 1993 )
* 342 ⢠Illusion and Expectation: The Baking of a Science Fiction Award ⢠essay by Pat Murphy
* 351 ⢠Ideologically Labile Fruit Crisp ⢠(1991) ⢠essay by Eileen Gunn
* 355 ⢠Tiptree Stories ⢠essay by Justine Larbalestier
* 370 ⢠The Marianas Islands ⢠(1996) ⢠shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
* 383 ⢠Letterspace: In the Chinks Between Published Fiction and Published Criticism ⢠essay by Sylvia Kelso and Lois McMaster Bujold
* 410 ⢠Dvorzjak Symphony ⢠(1990) ⢠shortstory by Candas Jane Dorsey
* 419 ⢠She Undoes ⢠(1996) ⢠poem by Greer Gilman
* 422 ⢠Better to Have Loved: Excerpts from a Life ⢠essay by Judith Merril
* 443 ⢠Supplementary Bibliography: Select List of Additional Critical Resources on Feminist SF (Women of Other Worlds) ⢠essay by Helen Merrick and Tess Williams
* 462 ⢠Selected List of Feminist SF (Women of Other Worlds) ⢠essay by Helen Merrick and Tess Williams