An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.
FEMSPEC is an academic, peer-reviewed journal focused on the study of gender in science fiction, fantasy, and speculative genres. We believe in non-hierarchical community and operate in a space of cooperation. All members of the collective are valued, heard, and respected without regards to age, experience, or professional position
Femspec Vol 1, Issue 2, 1999
Editorial Remarks
BATYA WEINBAUM
Criticism
BRIAN ATTEBERY. "Women Alone, Men Alone"
BARBARA MABEE. "Reception of Fairy Tale Motifs in Texts by Twentieth-Century German Women Writers"
LYNN WILLIAMS. "Separatist Fantasies 1690-1997: An Annotated Bibliography"
Fiction
RUTH KNAFO SETTON. "Beast"
Play
LINDA EISENSTEIN. "Revelation 24:12"
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Poetry
BARBARA LOUISE UNGAR. "Circe in Love"
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Girls' Section
NICTE-HA. "Dinotopia"
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Conference and Event Coverage
NANCY JOHNSTON. "Made in Canada"
SYLVIA KELSO. "No Place, the Good Place, a New Place"
BATYA WEINBAUM. "NWSA FEMSPEC Salon"
PHOEBE WRAY. "Writer's Respite at Wiscon '99"
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Reviews
GLORIA ORENSTEIN. "Surrealist Women"
LIISA HAKE. "Two Reviews"
ANNE COLLINS SMITH. "The Exploration of Gender in Deep Space and Sacred Time"
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