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CRITICISM
ERIC M. DROWN Business Girls and Beset Men in Pulp Science Fiction and Science
Fiction Fandom With the tools and methodology of American Studies, this cultural studies article
brings evidence from the readers' columns in the early sf magazines as
they respond to early sf writers exploring gender in relationship to the influx
of women into the workforce in sf's early years.
JANET HARRISON The Muse Unmasked: Eileen Agar's Objectives Correlatives.
This article explores a surrealist woman painter not often included in the cannon
of surrealist artists, in particular for her use of female imagery, some of
which is reproduced in black and white here.
R.C. DOROZARIO The Consequences of Disney Anthropomorphism
This article probingly examines how Disney produces a hyperrealism in which
the landscape moves, and how this interrelates with the discourse on ecopsychology,
ecofeminism, women and nature. In particular stereotypes of gender are explored
with creations such as Bambi, showing how Bambi in the original cartoon was
male but was later passed on as a female in subsequent movie productions in
which the name was removed from the original referrent.
DEBRA BONITA SHAW Sex and the Single Starship Captain: Compulsory Heterosexuality
and Star Trek: Voyager.
Here the author insightfully examines why and how it is in the Star Trek
television series that the male Starship captains, when single, are allowed
to pursue sexial relations, whereas a single female captain is not, not without
negative repercussions.
FICTION
MARLEEN S. BARR Superfeminist Or, A Handmade Carol.
This satire continues the adventures of a feminist sf professor to whom
appearances are made.
STEPHANIE DICKINSON Grasshopper Woman.
A surrealistic, magical realist piece in which a rural community is besieged
with grasshoppers.
DEBRA SCHEEF From The Archives...
This spoof imagines the career of a feminist researcher trying to get her research
on male breastfeeding into establishment medical journals.
AIDA THOMPSON
Thanksgiving Day
Terse, poetic prose in which "Enlightenment is an illusion" is a note
slippe dunder the door while mash potatoes are being prepared for a Thanksgiving
dinner.
POETRY
CANDA CRUZ
The Goddess Rag; Avatar Blues
Blues-like song lyrics.
CATHY DALY Solo, Alone, False Apparitions, Untitled
Apocoplytic poetry requesitng to be burnt if love is built on fear, about the
apparition of Mary,
JIM DeWITT
While You're Waiting for the Wind…
Like a Zen koan, contains great impossible suggestions like writing your name
on water, slapping your face on wet cement, clutching at your silhouette to
make your body heavy...
EDVINA GIUNTA
Night's Whispers. Contains provocative imagery
like purple angels fluttering in quiet despair.
MARIE KAZALIA
No Elvis Sightings Pablo Picasso eating lunch,
a drunk Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau asking for spare change--these are images
the author encounters, but no Elvis.
SUSAN McLEAN
Circe, Scylla, The Siren, Melantho
Four poems drawn from Greek mythical imagery. Compares men to the various animals
Odysseus dealt with in the Odyssey--fox, sheep, pigs. Humorous.
GLENIS REDMOND
Lonely Girl," "Train," "Scripted Hope
"Lonely Girl" shows internal escape mechanism of a ghirl who moonwalks
opnto distant planets; "She Can't Read" shows a sixth grader flying
off on a black swan; "Scripted Hope" asks each of us to use magic
naming to fill ourselves with the power of survival.
DANA SONNENSCHEIN
Man Ray's Muse
Terse poetic prose poem about manifestoes from France.
ELIZABTH KELLEY
Letter
Desire for escape from world horrors expressed.
INTERVIEW
BATYA WEINBAUM
Batya Weinbaum with DIANA RIVERS
In rural Arkansas, a feminist sf writer who lives in the woods is interviewed
about her writing process.
BOOK REVIEW
ERIN SMITH
"Women Writing Pulp"
An American Studies professor analyzes three of the Femme Fatale novels reprinted
by Feminist Press.
BOOKS AND MEDIA RECEIVED
44 titles of interest.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
STARHAWK
STARHAWK on MONICO SJOO
Artist, writer and visionary, author of The Great Cosmic Mother, memorialized
by a leader of the women's spirituality movement.