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Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy

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01/1986. 250 pages.
0896721337
978-0-89672-133-3

$24.95 cloth

Studies in Comparative Literature Series

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Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Edited by Jane B. Weedman

Jane B. Weedman's Women Worldwalkers is a collection of science fiction and fantasy literature from various writers. It constitutes the proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Comparative Literature Symposium held on 26 through 28 January 1983.


Woman: The Other Alien in Alien - Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Responsibilities and Temptations of Women Science Fiction Writers - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Women and Technology in Science Fiction: An Uneasy Alliance - Valerie Broege
Earth Mothers or Male Memories: Wilhelm, Lem, and Future Women - Patrice Caldwell
The Classical Humanism of Philip K. Dick - Peder Christiansen
Types of Feminist Fantasy and Science Fiction - Kathleen Cioffi
Orders of Chaos: The Science Fiction of Joanna Russ - Samuel R. Delany
Christa Reinig's Emasculation: Male Chauvinism as Science Fiction - Esther N Elstun
"A Good Game to Play": Brian Aldiss and the Mother of Science Fiction - David Leon Higdon
Wife/ Mother, Sorceress/ Keeper, Amazon/ Renunciate: Status Ambivalence and Conflicting Roles on the Planet Darkover - Barbara Hornum
The Evolving Consciousness of Feminine Identity in Doris Lessing's The Memoirs of a Survivor and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - Sandra Lott
Women of Dune: Frank Herbert as Social Reactionary? - Miriam Youngerman Miller
The Brass Brassiere: Sexual Dimorphism in Science Fiction Illustration - Marilyn R. Mumford
Worlds of Words and Swords: Suzette Haden Elgin and Joanna Russ at Work - Thelma J. Shinn
"Great Country for Men and Dogs, but Tough on Women and Mules": Sex and Status in Recent Science Fiction Utopias - Lynn F. Williams
Gender Roles in the Darkover Novels of Marion Zimmer Bradley - Diane S. Wood




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