EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION .....................................................11 Batya Weinbaum   CRITICAL ARTICLES ................................................................. 17 Reading Wide Awake: Jean E. Karl, Atheneum Books, and Mythopoeic Fiction        Sophia Arts........................................................................... 17   Witchcraft and Warfare: Female Power, Violence, and Conditional Citizenship in Motherland: Fort Salem       Judith Rauscher..

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FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following role:   WEBSITE EDITOR   Duties include :  *Updating FEMSPEC's website at the collective's request - this could include updating biographies of collective members, altering the website's layout, adding or removing content from various pages in the website, and updating the website with information about the current