Science Fiction Studies

#51 = Volume 17, Part 2 = July 1990

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SPECIAL ISSUE: SCIENCE FICTION BY WOMEN

ARTICLES

• Veronica Hollinger. Introduction: Women in Science Fiction and Other Hopeful Monsters

• Robin Roberts. Post-Modernism and Feminist Science Fiction

• Elizabeth Cummins. The Land-Lady's Homebirth: Revisiting Ursula K. Le Guin's Worlds

• Kathleen L. Spencer. Rescuing the Female Child:The Fiction of Joanna Russ

• Nancy Steffen-Fluhr. The Case of the Haploid Heart: Psychological Patterns in the Science Fiction of Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr)

• Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis. The Marriage of Inner and Outer Space in Doris Lessing's Shikasta

• Hoda M. Zaki. Utopia, Dystopia, and Ideology in the Science Fiction of Octavia Butler

• Jane Donawerth. Lilith Lorraine: Feminist Socialist Writer in the Pulps

REVIEW-ESSAYS

• Meri-Jane Rochelson. Mary Shelley's Progeny (Anne K. Mellor. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters; Allene Stuart Phy. Mary Shelley; Mary K. Patterson Thornburg. The Monster in the Mirror: Gender and the Sentimental/Gothic Myth in Frankenstein)

• Charles Elkins. The Uses of Science Fiction(Donna Haraway. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science)

BOOKS IN REVIEW

• Warren's Keep Watching the Skies! (Andrew Gordon)

• Weinberg's A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (Gary K. Wolfe)

• Brigg's Ballard (Dennis M. McGucken)

• Barr's Alien to Femininity (Carol D. Stevens)

• A Herbert Bibliography (Walter E. Meyers)

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE

• Critical Misconceptions (David Ketterer)
• Concerning the Pilgrim Award (Walter E. Meyers, Joan Gordon)
• A Feminist Forum

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