Daughters of earth : feminist science fiction in the twentieth century /
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| Imprint: | Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2006. |
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| Description: | xix, 397 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5929011 |
Table of Contents:
- Editor's Acknowledgments
- Contributors' Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. "The Fate of the Poseidonia," 1927
- Illicit Reproduction: Clare Winger Harris's "The Fate of the Poseidonia"
- 2. "The Conquest of Gola," 1931
- The Conquest of Gernsback: Leslie F. Stone and the Subversion of Science Fiction Tropes
- 3. "Created He Them," 1955
- 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
- 4. "No Light in the Window," 1963
- Cold War Masculinity In the Early Work of Kate Wilhelm
- 5. "The Heat Death of the Universe," 1967
- A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline's "The Heat Death of the Universe"
- 6. "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill Side," 1972
- (Re)reading James Tiptree Jr.'s "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill Side"
- 7. "Wives," 1976
- The Universal Wife: Exploring 1970s Feminism with Lisa Tuttle's "Wives"
- 8. "Rachel in Love," 1987
- Simians, Cyborgs, and Women in "Rachel in Love"
- 9. "The Evening and the Morning and the Night," 1987
- Octavia Butler-Praise Song to a Prophetic Artist
- 10. "Balinese Dancer," 1997
- "Prefutural Tension": Gwyneth Jones's Gradual Apocalypse
- 11. "What I Didn't See," 2002
- Something Rich and Strange: Karen Joy Fowler's "What I Didn't See"
- Works Consulted
- Contributors
