| Description |
xi, 323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: "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 -- The 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 -- The biopolitics of cyberspace: Piercy Hacks Gibson / June Deery -- A crossbreed loneliness? Jeff Noon's feminist cyberpunk / Val Gough -- Real lives complicate matters in Schrödinger's world: Pat Cadigan's alternative cyberpunk vision / Elisabeth Kraus -- The 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 -- The woman scientist in Star trek: Voyager / Robin Roberts -- Postfeminism and the female action-adventure hero: positioning Tank girl / Elyce Rae Helford -- Postscript: A real future female: dreams, truth, and hope / Sheila Finch. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, American. |
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Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Feminism and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Feminist fiction, American. |
| Added Author |
Barr, Marleen S.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Future females, the next generation. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2000 (OCoLC)606409739 |
| ISBN |
0847691268 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780847691265 paperback alkaline paper |
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084769125X cloth alkaline paper |
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9780847691258 cloth alkaline paper |
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