Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism (1999)

by Helen Merrick (Editor, Contributor), Tess Williams (Editor, Contributor)

Other authors: Eleanor Arnason (Contributor), Freddie Baer (Cover artist), Lois McMaster Bujold (Contributor), Suzy McKee Charnas (Contributor), Bill Clemente (Contributor) — 26 more, Candas Jane Dorsey (Contributor), Suzette Haden Elgin (Contributor), Kelley Eskridge (Contributor), Karen Joy Fowler (Contributor), Lisbeth Gant-Britton (Contributor), Greer Gilman (Contributor), Jeanne Gomoll (Introduction), Nicola Griffith (Contributor), Eileen Gunn (Contributor), Rebecca J. Holden (Contributor), Nalo Hopkinson (Contributor), Gwyneth Jones (Contributor), Sylvia Kelso (Contributor), Justine Larbalestier (Contributor), Ursula K. Le Guin (Contributor), Rosaleen Love (Contributor), Katherine MacLean (Contributor), Rebecca Marjesdatter (Contributor), Judith Merril (Contributor), Pat Murphy (Contributor), Ellen Peel (Contributor), Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Contributor), Delia Sherman (Contributor), Jennifer Stevenson (Contributor), Susanna J. Sturgis (Contributor), Elisabeth Vonarburg (Contributor)

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Feminist science fiction is a rich space at the intersection of popular literature and feminist thought. This book examines this phenomenon, collecting work from all aspects of feminist SF - fiction poetry, criticism, fan-writing, even a recipe. It presents an international sampler of a vibrant form of women's writing.… (more)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Merrick, Helen	Editor, Contributor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Williams, Tess	Editor, Contributor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Arnason, Eleanor	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Baer, Freddie	Cover artist	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bujold, Lois McMaster	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Charnas, Suzy McKee	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Clemente, Bill	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Dorsey, Candas Jane	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Elgin, Suzette Haden	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Eskridge, Kelley	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Fowler, Karen Joy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gant-Britton, Lisbeth	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gilman, Greer	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gomoll, Jeanne	Introduction	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Griffith, Nicola	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gunn, Eileen	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Holden, Rebecca J.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hopkinson, Nalo	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Jones, Gwyneth	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kelso, Sylvia	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Larbalestier, Justine	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Le Guin, Ursula K.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Love, Rosaleen	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
MacLean, Katherine	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Marjesdatter, Rebecca	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Merril, Judith	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Murphy, Pat	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Peel, Ellen	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Salmonson, Jessica Amanda	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sherman, Delia	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Stevenson, Jennifer	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sturgis, Susanna J.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Vonarburg, Elisabeth	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Feminist science fiction is a rich space at the intersection of popular literature and feminist thought. This book examines this phenomenon, collecting work from all aspects of feminist SF - fiction poetry, criticism, fan-writing, even a recipe. It presents an international sampler of a vibrant form of women's writing.

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An Envoy from Senectutus: Wiscon 20 Guest of Honour Speech / Ursula K. Le Guin
Handwork / Rebecca Marjesdatter
The Small Black Box of Morality / Eleanor Arnason
Reading Piebald Patterns in Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness / Ellen Peel
And She Was the Word / Tess Williams
Of Women and Wonder: A Conversation with Suzy McKee Charnas / Bill Clemente
A Beauty, a Phantom, and Two Talking Heads: The Psychology of Confinement in Suzy McKee Charnas' Beauty and the Opéra / Jennifer Stevenson
Notes of a Border Crosser / Susanna Sturgis
From Female Man to Feminist Fan: Uncovering "Herstory" in the Annals of SF Fandom / Helen Merrick
A Non-Traveller Spends a Month Away from Home / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
And Salomé Danced / Kelley Eskridge
The Erotics of Gender Ambiguity: A Fem-SF Symposium / Helen Merrick
The Kidnapping of Baroness 5 / Katherine MacLean
Of Synners and Brainworms: Feminism on the Wire / Rebecca Holden
Home by the Sea / Élisabeth Vonarburg
Writing from the Body / Nicola Griffith
A Habit of Waste / Nalo Hopkinson
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower: One Alternative to a Futureless Future / Lisbeth Gant-Britton
Excerpt from The Freedom Maze / Delia Sherman
Hush My Mouth / Suzette Haden Elgin
The Onion Skin Theory of Identity, the Paint Pot Theory of Gender, and the Blu-Tack Theory of Position / Rosaleen Love
The Universe of Things / Gwyneth Jones
Illusion and Expectation: The Baking of a Science Fiction Award / Pat Murphy
Ideologically Labile Fruit Crisp / Eileen Gunn
Tiptree Stories / Justine Larbalestier
The Marianas Islands / Karen Joy Fowler
Letterspace: In the Chinks Between
Published Fiction and Published Criticism / Lois McMaster Bujold, Sylvia Kelso
Dvorzjak Symphony / Candas Jane Dorsey
She Undoes / Greer Gilman
Better to Have Loved: Excerpts from a Life / Judith Merrild