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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Barr, Marleen S. Lost in space. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c1993 (OCoLC)756426951 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marleen S Barr |
| ISBN: | 080782108X 9780807821084 0807844217 9780807844212 |
| OCLC Number: | 27725978 |
| Description: | xi, 231 p. ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Marleen S. Barr. |
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