FEMSPEC
An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.
Femspec Vol 2, Issue 1, 2000
Editorial Remarks
BATYA WEINBAUM and RITCH CALVIN
Critical Articles
JANICE CROSBY. "The Snow Queen and the Goddess in the Machine"
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MARY CATHERINE HARPER. "Mending the Rationality/Romanticism Divide in the Study of Women's Science Fiction"
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VERONICA HOLLINGER. "The Utopia of the Perverse: An Exercise in Transgressive Reinscription"
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NANCY JOHNSTON. "I Would Have Swallowed the Kiss: Reflections on Feminist Speculative Poetry"
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DIANE SIMMONS. "Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior and Shaman: Fighting Women in the New World"
Autobiography and Creative Non-Fiction
MARLEEN S. BARR. "Interview with Janet Asimov"
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SYLVIA KELSO. "Third Person Peculiar: Reading between Academic and SF-Community Positions in Feminist (SF)"
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Poetry
BARBARA MINCHINTON. "Housework Beast"
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Fiction
CHRISTINE CROYDEN. "Interview with a Housework Beast"
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LINDA JOHNSON. "If the Sun and Moon Should Doubt"
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STEPHANIE SELLERS. "Coyote Wants a Baby"
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Historical Document
LESLIE F. STONE. "Out of the Void"
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Conference Coverage
BATYA WEINBAUM. "NWSA 2000-Boston"
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GLORIA ORENSTEIN. "NWSA 2000-Boston"
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BATYA WEINBAUM. "SFRA 2000-Cleveland"
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Reviews
MARCUS CASAL. "The Poet as Cartographer"
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PHILLIPA KAFKA. "Don Quixote, the Joads, and Jack Kerouac Move Over: A Chinese American Woman's Adventures On the Road [of Life]"
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KAREN SCHNEIDER. "On Women of Other Worlds"
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