[lit-ideas] Re: feminist science fiction?
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:20:56 +0000
I'm afraid this may be just the beginning, Mirembe, particularly as Cathy
and I haven't read all the same writers... I once joined a feminist
sci-fi list but couldn't cope with the traffic... but a lot of the
pieces really are well worth reading
Judy
Monday, February 14, 2005, 9:24:06 PM, Mirembe Nantongo wrote:
MN> Many thanks to Judy and Cathy for their recommendations on this thread. I
MN> already had Le Guin's _The Dispossessed_ on order and have to hand Gilman's
MN> _Herland_ from the same person who lent me _The Left Hand of Darkness_. Both
MN> volumes of _Women of Wonder_ are now also on order. I seem to be in good
MN> shape, at least to start with.
MN> All best, MN
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MN> From: "Cathy" <ckerwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
MN> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
MN> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 1:36 AM
MN> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: feminist science fiction?
>> Let me add Octavia Butler, a black woman who was writing in the fifties,
>> the
>> classic era in which the stereotypic sci-writer and reader was a white
>> male,
>> in particular, a geeky, white male. Angela Carter's post-holocaust
>> examination of society and gender roles, _Heroes and Villains_, is a
>> personal favorite as is Anne McCaffrey's _The Ship Who Sang_ although
>> McCaffrey is better known for her _Dragons of Pern_ series.
>>
>> All of these writers, and more, are represented in a two-volume set
>> entitled
>> _Women of Wonder_. If you find the set, be sure to look at Butler's
>> "Bloodchild" and James Tiptree, Jr.'s " The Women Men Don't See." Tiptree
>> is a nom de plume for Alice Sheldon.
>>
>> Catherine
>>
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