Lost in space : probing feminist science fiction and beyond /
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Chapel Hill, N.C. :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1993]
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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.