[lit-ideas] Re: feminist science fiction?
- From: "Mirembe Nantongo" <nantongo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:24:06 +0100
Many thanks to Judy and Cathy for their recommendations on this thread. I
already had Le Guin's _The Dispossessed_ on order and have to hand Gilman's
_Herland_ from the same person who lent me _The Left Hand of Darkness_. Both
volumes of _Women of Wonder_ are now also on order. I seem to be in good
shape, at least to start with.
All best, MN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cathy" <ckerwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 1:36 AM
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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judy Evans" <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:34 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: feminist science fiction?
>
>
> In a rush (on my way out for coffee..) just to say I'll look into
> this (properly) later. Meanwhile Marge Piercy's _Woman On the Edge of
> Time_
> would normally be recommended, then there's Doris Lessing's work.
> Would _A Handmaid's Tale_ count?
>
> LeGuin is amazing. Have you read _The Dispossessed_?
>
> Judy
>
> Sunday, February 13, 2005, 6:34:50 AM, Mirembe Nantongo wrote:
>
> MN> I have just finished reading Ursula Le Guin's "The Left Hand
> MN> of Darkness." Without being sure why, I do not normally read
> MN> fantasy or science fiction (with the exception of Tolkien, C.S.
> MN> Lewis, Frank Herbert and Ursula Le Guin) but have lately become
> MN> interested in reading about imagined civilizations crafted either
> MN> by women or in a gender-neutral fashion. "The Left Hand" is one
> MN> such work, and very interesting reading it makes - quite apart
> MN> from the fact that Le Guin is a consummate story teller and would
> MN> be worth reading whatever she wrote about. Am looking for other
> MN> works with a similar focus and am now drowning in a sea of
> MN> information from this site: http://www.feministsf.org/femsf/bibs/
> MN> The site classifies feminist science fiction works in many
> MN> different ways (e.g. matriarchies, separatism, feminist utopias,
> MN> role reversal societies, women-only worlds, Amazon societies,
> MN> intentional communities designed by women, etc etc) and there are
> MN> long lists of authors and their works. The problem is I haven't
> MN> heard of most of them and have no idea what is worth reading and
> MN> where to start.
>
> MN> Any recommendations will be most gratefully received.
>
> MN> Regards, Mirembe
>
>
>
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