Femspec Vol 18, Issue 1, 2017

Editor's Corner

BATYA WEINBAUM

Introduction

EMILY COX

Criticism

NAOMI R. MERCER. "Utopia as a Process in Jewish Feminist Dystopian Writing"

BATYA WEINBAUM. "Seeking the Divine Mother: The Disappointed Feminist Field Worker in South America, or Should She Be?"

Interview

ALICIA COLE. "Interview with Ana Castilo"

Creative Work: Poems

ALICIA COLE. "Invisible"

BATYA WEINBAUM. "Who We Were"

Book and Media Reviews

CAIT COOKER. "Carol Anne Douglas 'Lancelot: Her Story'"

NAOMI R. MERCER. "Naomi Alderman 'The Power'"

MERRY LYNN BYRD. "Maybe The Answer was Miranda All Along: A Review of Margaret Atwood’s 'Hag Seed' and Jacqueline Carey’s 'Miranda and Caliban'"

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TUCKER PAMELLA FARLEY. "Transfixed: A Review of Sharon Leder’s 'The Fix: A Father’s Secrets, A Daughter’s Search'"

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NAOMI R. MERCER. "The Handmaid’s Tale"

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CHAZ KADER. "Don’t Let Anyone Clip Your Wings: Celeste Newbrough’s 'Angel on Polk Street'"

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Conference and Event Coverage

EMILY COX. "Philip K. Dick and Vast Narrative, Birmingham City University, 22nd April 2017"

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BATYA WEINBAUM. "Report on the Second Annual Handmaids’ Gate Gathering"

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Obituaries

BATYA WEINBAUM. "Death at Twin Oaks"

BATYA WEINBAUM. "Dancing with Joe, or How to Get A Graduate Thesis Advisor"

Books and Media Received

Contributors

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