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Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
| Author: | Justine Larbalestier |
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Wesleyan University Press, 2006 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction / Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Women's contributions to science fiction over the past century have been lasting and important, but critical work in the field has only just begun to explore its full range. Justine Larbalestier has collected 11 key stories -- many of them not easily found, and all of them powerful and provocative -- and sets them alongside 11 new essays, written by top scholars and critics, that explore the stories' contexts, meanings, and theoretical implications. The resulting dialogue is one of enormous significance to critical scholarship in science fiction, and to understanding the role of feminism in its development. Organized chronologically, this anthology creates a new canon of feminist science fiction and examines the theory that addresses it. Daughters of Earth is an ideal overview for students and general readers.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction (Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century) - essay by Justine Larbalestier
- The Fate of the Poseidonia - (1927) - shortstory by Clare Winger Harris
- Illicit Reproduction: Clare Winger Harris's "The Fate of the Poseidonia" - essay by Jane L. Donawerth [as by Jane Donawerth]
- The Conquest of Gola - (1931) - shortstory by Leslie F. Stone
- The Conquest of Gernsback: Leslie F. Stone and the Subversion of Science Fiction Troupes - essay by Brian Attebery
- Created He Them - (1955) - shortstory by Alice Eleanor Jones
- From Ladies' Home Journal to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 1950s SF, the Offbeat Romance Story, and the Case of Alice Eleanor Jones - essay by Lisa Yaszek
- No Light in the Window - (1963) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
- Cold War Masculinity In the Early Work of Kate Wilhelm - essay by Josh Lukin
- The Heat Death of the Universe - (1967) - shortstory by Pamela Zoline
- A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline's "The Heat Death of the Universe" - essay by Mary E. Papke
- And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - (1972) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
- (Re)reading James Tiptree Jr.'s "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill Side" - essay by Wendy Pearson
- Wives - (1979) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
- The Universal Wife: Exploring 1970s Feminism with Lisa Tuttle's "Wives" - essay by Cathy Hawkins
- Rachel in Love - (1987) - novelette by Pat Murphy
- Simians, Cyborgs, and Women in "Rachel in Love" - essay by Joan Haran
- The Evening and the Morning and the Night - (1987) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
- Octavia Butler -- Praise Song to a Prophetic Artist - (2006) - essay by Andrea Hairston
- Balinese Dancer - (1997) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
- "Prefutural Tension": Gwyneth Jones's Gradual Apocalypse - essay by Veronica Hollinger
- What I Didn't See - (2002) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
- Something Rich and Strange: Karen Joy Fowler's "What I Didn't See" - (2006) - essay by L. Timmel Duchamp
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