EDITORIAL REMARKS

   
BATYA WEINBAUM Editor’s Note xiii

SPECULATING JEWISH WOMEN

 

LIORA MORIEL

3

CRITICISM

 

 

SUSAN KRAY

Refamiliarization: Jewish Women in the Narrative Strategies of "Pulp" Science Fiction Magazine Stories, 1993-2000

7
GLORIA ORENSTEIN

Vision and Visibility: Contemporary Jewish Women Artists Visualize the Invisible

46

MEMOIR

   

PAMELA SARGENT

Jewish Enough 83
HISTORICAL FICTION    
LESLIE F. STONE Cosmic Joke 90

OVUMINAL WORK

 

 
JUDITH MERRIL

That Only a Mother

103
FICTION    

MARLEEN S. BARR

Close Encounters of the Monica Kind 115
E. M. BRONER De-Winging the Angel 119
MARILYN GALE Lilith 1996 123

BATYA WEINBAUM

Sasha’s Harlem: Excerpts 130
POETRY    
KAREN ALCALY-GUT

One of Those Nights

143
MARILYN JURICH Even Death Is Uncertain without the Proper Forms 146
CAROL ROSE Ex-nihilio 152
LORRAINE SCHEIN The Goddess at Bergen-Belsen 153
REVIEWS    
SCOTT BARR Review of The Defiant Muse 159
ROBERT CHARLICK Review of Sleeping with Cats 164
PHILLIPA KAFKA Review of A Spiritual Life 167
BRIAN KELLEY Review of Dreaming the Actual 171
PHYLLIS LASSNER Review of Women’s Holocaust Writing 175
DIANA ORENDI Review of Soundless Roar 180
AUDREY VANDERFORD Review of The Raw Brunettes 184
ILANA WOLPERT Review of Bee Season 188
BATYA WEINBAUM Review of Klezmer Music 191
RACE AND CULTURE
BATYA WEINBAUM

Editor’s Note

199
CRITICISM    
ALYSON BUCKMAN

"What Good Is All This To Black People? Octavia B utler’s Reconstruction of Corporeality

201
SHARON DEGRAW "The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same": Gender and Sexuality in Octavia Butler’s Oeuvre 219

SANDRA GOVAN

The Parable of the Sower as Rendered by Octavia Butler: Lessons for Our Changing Times

239

STEPHANIE S. TURNER

"What Actually Is": The Insistence of Genre in Octavia Butler’s Kindred

259
FICTION    
  DONNA MARIE ROBB Soul Spinner 281
POETRY    
RITA GRABOWSKI Recessively Blond 293
SHANNON MARIANA HOUSTON Haiku 295
REVIEWS    
NSENGA K. BURTON

Review of Female Hip-Hop Artists in Outer Space

296

MONIQUE MORRISON

Octavia Butler Speaks: A Visit to Cleveland State University 305

IFEOMA C.K. NWANKWO

Review of Brown Girl in the Ring 307
GENERAL REVIEWS    

DEBRA RAE COHEN

Review of The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction 311