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Where No Man has Gone Before

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Where No Man has Gone Before

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Essays on Women and Science Fiction

Where No Man has Gone Before

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Essays on Women and Science Fiction
Edited ByLucie Armitt
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1991
eBook Published 5 June 2012
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203120576
Pages 4
eBook ISBN 9780203120576
Subjects Language & Literature
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Armitt, L. (Ed.). (1991). Where No Man has Gone Before: Essays on Women and Science Fiction (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203120576

ABSTRACT

How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women?

To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics?

What has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the academic establishment and the publishing industry?

These are just some of the questions addressed by this collection of original essays by women writers, readers and critics of the genre. But the undoubted existence of a recent surge of women’s interest in science fiction is by no means the full story. From Mary Shelley onwards, women writers have played a central role in the shaping and reshaping of this genre, irrespective of its undeniably patriarchal image. Through a combination of essays on the work of writers such as Doris Lessing and Ursula Le Guin, with others on still-neglected writers such as Katherine Burdekin and C. L. Moore and a wealth of contemporaries including Suzette Elgin, Gwyneth Jones, Maureen Duffy and Josephine Saxton, this anthology takes a step towards redressing the balance.

Perhaps, above all, what this collection demonstrates is that science fiction remains as particularly well-suited to the exploration of woman as ‘alien’ or ‘other’ in our culture today, as it was with the publication of Frankenstein in 1818.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I. Writing Through the Century: Individual Authors

chapter 1|14 pages

The loss of the feminine principle in Charlotte Haldane's Man's World and Katherine Burdekin's Swastika Night

chapter 2|21 pages

'Shambleau . . . and others': therole of the female in the fiction of C. L Moore

chapter 3|17 pages

Remaking the Old World: Ursula Le Guln and the American tradition

chapter 4|16 pages

Doris Lessing and the politics of violence

part |2 pages

Part II. Aliens and Others: A Contemporary Perspective

chapter 5|12 pages

Mary and the monster: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Maureeen Duffy's Gor Saga

chapter 6|12 pages

Pets and monsters: metamorphoses in recent science fiction

chapter 7|14 pages

Between the boys and their toys: the science fiction film

chapter 8|16 pages

Your word is my command: the structures of language and power In women's science fiction

chapter 9|24 pages

'I'm not in the business I am the business': women at work in Hollywood science fiction

part |2 pages

Part III. Readers and Writers: SF as Genre Fiction

chapter 10|13 pages

Writing science fiction for the teenage reader

chapter 11|8 pages

Sex, sub-atomic particles and sociology

chapter 12|19 pages

Maeve and Guinevere: women's fantasy writing in the science fiction market place

chapter 13|13 pages

'Goodbye to all that ...'

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