FEMSPEC
An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.
Femspec Vol 3, Issue 2, 2002
Editorial Remarks
BATYA WEINBAUM
Critical Articles
LOUISE ALLEN. "Monkey Business: Planet of the Apes and Romantic Excess"
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CHRISTINE DORAN. "Fantasy as History: The Invention of Cixi, Empress of China"
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PATRICIA MELZER. "All that you touch you change: Utopian Desire and the Concept of Change in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents" (full text)
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GLORIA FEMAN ORENSTEIN. "Journey through Mlle de Scudery’s Carte de Tendre: A 17th-Century Salon Woman's Dream/Country of Tenderness" (full text)
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DARKO SUVIN. "Cloning: On Cognition in the Discourses of SF and Technoscience"
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Fiction
TANANARIVE DUE. "Protection"
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CAROL GUESS. "Love Story with Living Ghost"
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REBECCA LESSES. "A Dream Question for the Angels"
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Girls' Fiction
CATHY SADLER. "The Lost Tribe"
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Poetry
NANCY KUHL. "If Kay Sage Painted Self-Portrait as a Boy"
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"The Hundred-Headless Woman Opens Her August Sleeve: Part 2"
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TARA LEONARD. "Sanitary/Sanity"
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JANE LIDDELL-KING. "Cornflakes"
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LORRAINE SCHEIN. "Remedios Varo"
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Interview
BATYA WEINBAUM. "Interview with Marge Piercy"
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Reviews
PHILLIPA KAFKA. "Review of The Road to Fez"
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ANNIS VILAS PRATT. "Review of The Golden Notebook of Springfield"
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ERIN A. SMITH. "Review of The Politics of Women's Studies"
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GINA WISKER. "Review of Saddling la Gringa"
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"Review of (Out) Classed Women"
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