Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology (eBook)

Ritch Calvin is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at SUNY, Stony Brook, USA. He is the editor of Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity, the co-editor of SF 101: An Introduction to Science Fiction, and has published work in Extrapolation, Femspec, Science Fiction Film and Television, Science Fiction Studies, and Utopian Studies. He served six years on the SFRA Executive Committee and as the SFRA Review’s media reviews editor.

  Table of Contents   Chapter Zero: Endings(s)   Chapter One: Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology   Chapter Two: The First Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Plot             Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)             Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn (1987)             L. Timmel Duchamp’s “De Secretis Mulierum” (1995/2008)             Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl (2002)   Chapter Three: The Second Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Structural Elements             Joanna Russ’s The Female Man (1975)             Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)             Laura Bynum’s Veracity (2010)   Chapter Four: The Third Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Science             Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s “Sultana’s Dream” (1905)             Helen Collins’s Mutagenesis (1992)             Amy Thomson’s The Color of Distance (1995)             Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber (2000)   Chapter Five: The Fourth Mode of FESF: Epistemology and Language             Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)             Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue (1984)             Sheila Finch’s Triad (1986)             Ruth Nestvold’s “Looking through Lace” (2003/2011)             Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères (1969)   Chapter Six: Beginning(s)