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	Science Fiction and the Feminist Movement
		Science fiction, as a literary genre, is commonly accepted as a male realm.
		Unlike mainstream fiction, science fiction allows for settings which are not limited to the historical or narrowly "realistic." This broader definition allows for new settings, new social structures, perhaps new life forms, without necessitating a "scientific" explanation of how t hese all came about.
		Science Fiction, as a genre, was established in the late 1890s and 1900s with the writings of Englishmen H. Wells.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~epf/1994/scifi.html (4849 words)

	AfterEllen.com - Lesbian/Feminist Science Fiction
		Feminist science fiction continues to be a vehicle for women writers to examine gender roles and experiment with the ways they could be changed.
		For lesbian and bisexual women, feminist science fiction offers a place for us to experience worlds where women are central, and where being a lesbian is often the norm instead of the exception.
		Feminist science fiction might have been full of women on horses pounding drums in the forests, but (paradoxically) none of that pounding or riding led to sex in the woods.
	www.afterellen.com /Print/scifi.html (1050 words)

	Sci-Fi Genres: Feminist Science Fiction - LoveToKnow Sci-Fi
		Science fiction is at its best when it examines or dissects and reconfigures social constructs.
		Her genre is usually thought of as 'literary' (ie classy) fiction, and sci-fi remains a bit of a ghetto, respect-wise at least.
		Sheri Tepper is a science fiction author of some note, and most of her novels feature feminist themes of some sort.
	sci-fi.lovetoknow.com /wiki/Sci-Fi_Genres:_Feminist_Science_Fiction (524 words)

	Feminist Science Fiction Resource Guide: bib
		There are no indexes specifically limited to feminist science fiction materials, although there are indexes to science fiction in general.
		These works provide lists and bibliographic information of primary works of science fiction by women and/or science fiction with a feminist perspective; lists of female characters; and a few entries on secondary or critical works.
		Two excellent electronic sources are Laura Quilter's Feminist Science Fiction WWW page and the short lists compiled for the Tiptree Award.
	feministsf.org /crit/whipple/rg.bib.html (464 words)

	Women, Technology and the Fututre in Feminist Science Fiction (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Science fiction has always interested me, with its air of speculation and its creation of endless visions of alternative futures.
		Feminism has helped to explode the myth that patriarchal institutions, be it science, literature or science fiction, exist as self-contained structures unaffected by the social structures of everyday life.
		Basically the label 'science fiction' is used by publishers to describe a certain type of novel which is concerned with science (pseudo-sciences, such as telekinesis, telepathy, and speculations about the most current ideas included).
	www.ex.ac.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /ws/Abstracts/AbBrennan.html (764 words)

	Amazon.com: Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond: Books: Marleen S. Barr,Marge Piercy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary canons with radical alternatives to mainstream patriarchal society.
		Moving beyond feminist science fiction itself, Barr goes on to examine other literary genres from the perspective of 'feminist fabulation'—a term she has coined to encompass science fiction, fantasy, utopian literature, and mainstream literature that critiques patriarchal fictions.
		Her creation of "Feminist Fabulation" as a new literary category is clever and perhaps necessary to distinguish a sub-genre but threatens to further marginalize feminist science fiction to the most outer orbit of fiction's solar system.
	www.amazon.com /Lost-Space-Probing-Feminist-Fiction/dp/0807844217 (1117 words)

	Institutions in Feminist and Republican Science Fiction
		Science fiction recovers the institutional inspirations of earlier myths of law and politics (republicanism) while detailing their relevance to more recent concerns (feminism).
		Feminist science fiction is a mother lode of institutional invention.
		Recent science fiction echoes feminist theory in criticizing specialization and division of labor as far from the great engines of efficiency they purport to be.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/lsf/nelson22.htm (4068 words)

	Sci-Fi Site of the Week: Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia Page
		Site designer Laura Quilter admits up front that "feminist science fiction" is a troublesome term to define, so she has included references to any speculative works that discuss gender issues.
		There is also a list of general feminist themes such as societies, biology, fantasy, and strong women and feminist heroes.
		Several areas of the site are works in progress, including a section of recommendations for younger readers and a primer for those just getting their feet wet in feminist fiction.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue20/web.html (499 words)

	Cyborgs, Nurses, and Distance Education: A Feminist Science Fiction
		The merging of body and machine is particularly revolutionary for women, because women's embodiment in reality, science, and literature has been so circumscribed by their role in biological reproduction.
		This feminist edict applies as much to the creation of cyborgs as it did when women belonged to conscious-ness-raising groups in the 1970s and when scholars began to define feminist research methodology in the 1980s.
		In distance education, departments of computer science and services are usually concerned with this, while other work-ers are affected by the results of their planning.
	cade.icaap.org /vol5.2/10_bray.html (3584 words)

	Article Abstracts: #51 (Science Fiction by Women)
		Reading her fiction world by world allows us to follow a journey in which Le Guin has periodically come home to give birth to a new sense of herself as writer and as woman.
		Post-structuralist feminist SF problematizes language in respect both to its acquisition and the gendered and hierarchical structures embedded in it.
		Her works are important to historians of SF for her communitarian Christian socialism, her feminist analysis of the economics of marriage, her presentation of an alternate technology of reproduction, her development of the theme of mental telepathy, and her justification of racial prejudice in terms of a science of eugenics.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/abstracts/a51.htm (1648 words)

	Lesbian Science Fiction Links (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Feminist Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Fantasy (http://www.drizzle.com.cob-web.org:8888/~tmercer/fsfsff/index.html): Resources for the serious fan.
		They have a science fiction/fantasy section that includes books from the Isis series and others.
		Radical lesbian separatist science fiction set in a plausible future with a Celtic bent.
	lesbiansciencefiction.com.cob-web.org:8888 /links.html (224 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Given that the field of science fiction scholarship is a small one, it is a joy to find eleven very good feminist scholars among them.
		Science fiction in general, and feminist SF in particular, exists in relation to earlier works -- a "grand conversation," as L. Timmel Duchamp has described it.
		In defending Wilhelm's "No Light at the Window" as a feminist story, he says, "To appreciate the story's strengths, one may have to return to 1963." And he does, bringing 1963 to life for the 2006 reader.
	sfrevu.com /Review-id.php?id=3719 (1115 words)

	Daughters of Earth
		Daughters of Earth is a complete introdfiction to twentieth-century feminist science fiction, bringing together eleven of the best short stories from the genre’s beginnings to the early twenty-ffirst century.
		This change in venue echoes the changes in the science fiction community over this period: seventy years ago all the debates, conversations, arguments, and ranting that were (and are) such an important part of the community were found in the pages of science fiction magazines and fanzines; now that conversation is predominantly found online.
		Pioneers of science fiction and fantasy scholarship such as Brian Attebery, Jane Donawerth, and Veronica Hollinger are represented, as are relative newbies Joan Haran, Cathy Hawkins, Josh Lukin, Wendy Pearson, and Lisa Yaszek, all of whom received their Ph.D.’s within the last five years.
	www.justinelarbalestier.com /Daughters/e_intro.htm (1534 words)

	Reconstruction 5.4 (Fall 2005)
		Marleen S. Barr is a pioneer of feminist science fiction criticism and a leader in the fight against the ghettoizing influences of genre-labeling in literary criticism.
		The male science fiction critics came to my rescue when big mean conservatives who hate science fiction (replete with large fangs and sharp claws—and I am not kidding) tried to do me in.
		The male science fiction scholars supported me. After all, they knew what it was like to be marginalized because of their serious interest in so-called "genre fiction"—a.k.a "crap" in big, mean conservatives' parlance.
	reconstruction.eserver.org /054/barr.shtml (2403 words)

	Genres: Science Fiction
		Science fiction as a genre is often traced back to the pioneering work of Mary Shelley in Frankenstein, the story of a person made by a scientist from reanimated body parts, a person who discovers that in the eyes of the world he is a monster and decides to get revenge.
		The idea that science might become a diabolical and anti-social force is the foundation for one of science fiction's most basic assumptions: while many celebrate science as the end of superstition and ignorance, science fiction warns us that science, can also be used as a tool of oppression, violation, and narrow-minded destructiveness.
		What continues to unite narratives in the science fiction tradition is an urgent desire to reimagine human society, whether by revising its history, inventing potential new technologies, civilizations, and life forms, or creating speculative futures.
	english.berkeley.edu /Postwar/scifi.html (700 words)

	Veronica Hollinger- Feminist Science Fiction: Construction and Deconstruction
		In fact, Lefanu herself points out that Carter "is a writer that science fiction fans can boast of for taking SF out of the ghetto and revealing its seriousness to a sceptical world" (p.
		In her discussion of "The Heat Death of the Universe," she indicates the particular problem posed for feminists by structuralist and post-structuralist theory: "the radical, or transgressive aspects of the structuralist subversion of the subject do not allow for an analysis that shows 'woman' never to have been the subject in the first place" (p.
		According to her, feminist SF is marked by a lack of sentimentality and a "profound scepticism: of the 'naturalness' of the patriarchal world and the belief in male superiority upon which it is founded" (p.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/review_essays/holl48.htm (1228 words)

	Feminism in Science Fiction
		Women science fiction authors are coming forward to claim the attention they so richly deserve.
		The science fiction genre gives the feminist a unique environment for experimenting with the potential of a non-patriarchal society.
		I haven't been reading fiction of any sort much for a while (too tempting for me to leave the planet and hide in the books) but I never really much got into science fiction, partly beca...
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/fantasy_and_science_fiction/3464 (440 words)

	Feminist Daily News 2/28/2006: Feminist Science Fiction Author Octavia Butler Dies at 58
		The first African-American woman to break into the male-dominated field of science fiction, Butler used the genre to explore themes of race, politics, poverty, morality, and gender.
		Butler received a MacArthur "genius" award in 1995, and she remains the only science fiction writer to win the prestigious $295,000 award.
		Jane Jewell, executive director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, told the Associated Press, “She was one of the first and one of the best to discuss gender and race in science fiction."
	www.feminist.org /news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=9542 (349 words)

	Powell's Books - Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century by Justine Larbalestier (via ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Women's contributions to science fiction over the past century have been lasting and important, but critical work in the field has only just begun to explore its full range.
		The resulting dialogue is one of enormous significance to critical scholarship in science fiction, and to understanding the role of feminism in its development.
		Organized chronologically, this anthology creates a new canon of feminist science fiction and examines the theory that addresses it.
	www.powells.com.cob-web.org:8888 /biblio/62-0819566764-0 (202 words)

	NYC feminist science fiction reading - Science Fiction and Fantasy News
		Throughout her years spent editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror, she has consistently raised the standards of these genres, winning numerous awards (Hugo, Bram Stoker, Multiple World Fantasy) and working with such literary giants as Joyce Carol Oates, William Gibson, and Stephen King.
		Barr, a Fulbright scholar and a pioneer of the scholarly study of feminist science fiction, has devoted over 20 years to the critical analysis of the genre.
		Feminist science fiction, an offshoot of the larger science fiction genre, questions the gender roles and stereotypes we live under today and, looking to the future, offers alternatives to our current social constructs.
	www.sffworld.com /news/10.html (627 words)

	Lesbian Science Fiction Links
		Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Utopia (http://www.feministsf.org): This site is a complex bibliography that lists and cites and describes sf and critical works from a feminist perspective.
		Wiscon (http://www.wiscon.info): The world's leading feminist science fiction convention held annually in Madison, Wisconsin.
		Feminist Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Fantasy (http://www.drizzle.com/~tmercer/fsfsff/index.html): Resources for the serious fan.
	lesbiansciencefiction.com /links.html (244 words)

	Feminist science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Feminist science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction written from a specifically feminist viewpoint and often relating to issues of particular concern to feminists, such as
		Writers such as Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff have continued exploration of feminist sf issues.
		Maya in particular has written several stories highlighting feminist content but has also produced content in science fiction as well as fantasy arenas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feminist_science_fiction (172 words)

	Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Gender
		One of the major theoretical projects of the second wave of feminism is the investigation of gender and sexuality as social constructs.
		The stock conventions of science fiction—time travel, alternate worlds, entropy, relativism, the search for a unified field theory— can be used metaphorically and metonymically as powerful ways of exploring the construction of ‘woman’.
		Women’s science fiction, or feminist science fiction, is a more recent development than the genre as a whole, but today constitutes one of the most exciting and...
	www.enotes.com /science-fiction/31169 (178 words)

	One Hundred Little Dolls: Call for Submissions: Feminist Science Fiction Carnival (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The fifth Feminist Science Fiction Carnival will happen here at this blog on October 2.
		All relevant blog posts about Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy since August 24 onward is fair game--the deadline for the carnival is September 25.
		You can also visit the official blog of the carnival if you have any questions about the guidelines and for links to past editions of the carnival.
	100littledolls.blogspot.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2006/09/call-for-submissions-feminist-science.html (459 words)

	Cynthia Ward: Feminist SF & Fantasy
		The list is confined to primary Feminist SF/F texts, as determined by their influence on Feminist SF/F or their overtly feminist subject matter.
		Justine Larbalestier, The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction.
		* An essential Feminist SF/F author: all her SF/F (in many cases, all her writing) is feminist, and is highly recommended.
	www.cynthiaward.com /feminist.html (800 words)

	Feminist SF - The Blog!
		This is not so: Card is intelligent, but in his lying piece of bigotry ‘Civilization’, he’s not using his intelligence so much as his ability to lie: to create a fiction.
		The Sixth Carnival of Feminist SF is out today at The Hathor Legacy.
		We want a group blog to have feminists doing SF, and we recognize that there are a variety of different takes on feminism, different feminisms, and that all of us have identities other than feminist and gender identities that inform how we view the world.
	blogs.feministsf.net (3591 words)

	Study Guide for Ursula LeGuin: The Dispossessed (1974)
		Her initial rather flip defense was to say that as a science fiction writer she enjoyed trying to enter alien minds, so she was naturally drawn to portraying men.
		But her critics overlooked the fact that her novel incorporates many feminist values, even if it is not a radical feminist utopia.
		A few feminists even argued that children should be able to "divorce" their parents.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/science_fiction/dispossessed.html (5582 words)

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