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"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2025]
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| Series: | Jewish science fiction and fantasy
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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.