Women worldwalkers : new dimensions of science fiction and fantasy
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Women worldwalkers : new dimensions of science fiction and fantasy
(Proceedings of the Comparative Literature Symposium, [16])
Texas Tech Press, 1985
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Includes bibliographical references
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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