Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : Marleen Barr's Lost and Found / Marge Piercy
  • Introduction : Patriarchal hocus-pocus
  • Part 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, Zoë Fairbairns, Katherine Marcuse, and Kate Wilhelm blur generic conventions : pregnancy and power in feminist science fiction
  • Part 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 examplary 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.