Jewish women science fiction writers create future females : gender, temporality--and yentas /

"Acknowledging the growing cultural popularity of science fiction, this book explores gender through cohesiveness and spotlighted attention to Jewish women's science fiction visions"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Barr, Marleen S. (Editor), Dann, Jack (writer of afterword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2025]
Series:Jewish science fiction and fantasy
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The invisible Jewish woman or Closed legs Finkelstein and Princess Vespa are fake Jews / Marleen S. Barr
  • Alien encounters (of the Jewish kind) / Elana Gomel
  • Miriam Michelson's The superwoman and the future of feminist recovery / Lori Harrison-Kahan
  • Seeing Judith Merril's personal and professional maternal I in "That only a mother" : an intuitive close encounter / Leigh Gold
  • On (not) saving the world : Joanna Russ's Extra (ordinary) people / Steven Shaviro
  • Traumatic timescapes : Holocaust memory in Jane Yolen's The Devil's arithmetic and Nava Semel's And the rat laughed / Elyce Rae Helford
  • Esther Friesner's funny, serious, and seriously funny speculative fiction / Jennifer Caplan
  • Gendered memory/Jewish biography : reading Elana Gomel's "Sea of salt" / Danielle Gurevitch
  • Imagining a new Ashkenazi motherland : alternate history in Simone Zelitch's Judenstaat / Lance Strate
  • Motherhood, survival, and post-humanism in Keren Landsman's "Alone, in the dark," "Burn Alexandra," and The heart of the circle / Erga Heller
  • Naomi Alderman's complaint : The power addresses feminist science fiction's new human female superheroes and celebrates women's real bodies / Marleen S. Barr
  • Space time travel : the r/evolutionary Kabbalistics of Natasha Lyonne's Russian doll / Adeena Karasick
  • Nursing on the teat of Godzilla : David Brin and Daniel Brin reminisce with their childhood friend Lisa Goldstein / Daniel Brin, David Brin, and Lisa Goldstein
  • Afterword Finally! / Jack Dann.