| Description |
xi, 323 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Everything's coming up roses" or, mainstream feminist science fiction, the uncola / Marleen S. Barr -- Gender and genre in the feminist critical dystopias of Katharine Burdekin, Margaret Atwood, and Octavia Butler / Raffaella Baccolini -- Revising paradise : Judy Grahn's ectopia Mundane's world / Johanna Dehler -- Feminist dystopia of the 1990s : record of failure, midwife of hope / Jane Donawerth -- Post-phallic culture : reality now resembles utopian feminist science fiction / Marleen S. Barr -- Biopolitics of cyberspace : Piercy Hacks Gibson / June Deery -- Crossbreed loneliness? Jeff Noon's feminist cyberpunk / Val Gough -- Real lives complicate matters in Schrodinger's world : Pat Cadigan's alternative cyberpunk vision / Elisabeth Kraus -- Erotics of the (cy)borg : authority and gender in the sociocultural imaginary / Anne Cranny-Francis -- Pinup and cyborg : exaggerated gender and artificial intelligence / Despina Kakoudaki -- (Re)reading queerly : science fiction, feminism, and the defamiliarization of gender / Veronica Hollinger -- Determinate politics of indeterminacy : reading Joanna Russ's recent work in light of her early short fiction / Jeanne Cortiel -- Truth and story : history in Ursula K. Le Guin's short fiction and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Deirdre Byrne -- Incite/on-site/insight : implications of the other in Eleanor Arnason's science fiction / Joan Gordon -- Mexican women and Chicanas enter futuristic fiction / Lisbeth Gant-Britton -- Woman scientist in Star trek : Voyager / Robin Roberts -- Postfeminism and the female action-adventure hero : positioning Tank girl / Elyce Rae Helford -- Real future female : dreams, truth, and hope / Sheila Finch. |
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Barr, Marleen S.
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| ISBN |
084769125X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0847691268 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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