FEMSPEC
An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.
Femspec Vol 20, Issue 1, 2020
Editor's Corner
Featured Artist
Femspec Retrospective
Birthday Greetings: Andrea O'Reilly and Carl Freedman
MARGARA AVERBACH. "Femspec's Twentieth Birthday"
VERONICA HOLLINGER. "Women's Work"
JANINE HATTER. "From Inside the Beehive"
VICTORIA CHRISTENSEN. "A Labor of Love"
KELLY WOOTEN. "On Femspec's Archival Home"
ELISABETH VONARBURG. "Femspec is Twenty Years Old. Really?"
RAIN AND THUNDER COLLECTIVE. "Happy 20th Anniversary, Femspec!"
LISA YASCECK. "On the Occasion of FEMSPEC's Twentieth Anniversary"
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Interview
BATYA WEINBAUM. "WOW Cafe Interviews Continued, Danielle Notaro"
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Historical Documents
DANIELLE NOTARO. "Arete". Film script excerpt
Pages from The Chocolate Waters' Journals, WOW Cafe Days
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Sketch of Chocolate Waters: WOW Cafe Days
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Creative Work
Poetry and Art
GINA WISKER. "Always more than clearing up. (Act 9)"
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GILLIAN ROBINSON. "Planning"
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Fiction and Photography
EMMA SCOTT LAVIN. "I am Erika"
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Conference Coverage
BATYA WEINBAUM. "Leeds 6th International Conference on Women's Studies"
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Book and Media Reviews
MERRY BYRD. "States of Shock and Awful: Review of Maurice Carlos Ruffin, We Cast a Shadow, and Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamer"
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MERRY BYRD. "Sex and the (Single) Writer in the Big Strange City: A Review of Melissa Broder's The Pisces, and Robert Bolano's The Spirit of Science Fiction"
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KELSEY PAIGE MASON. "Future Hopes and Utopian Impulses: Addressing the Political Uses of Utopia in Historical and Theoretical Contexts"
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SARAH BETH GILBERT. "Sacrificing One's Body: Daughters, Mothers, and Grief in Luca Guadagino's Suspiria"
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H. L. STEVENS. "Popular Entertainment Uniquely Exploited: A Review of Adam Robitel's Escape Room (2019)"
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PATRICK WILLIAMS. "In the Absence of Best, or the Value of Imperfect in Margaret Atwood's The Testaments"
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Books and Media Received
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Contributors
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