FEMSPEC
An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.
Femspec Vol 4, Issue 2, 2004
Editorial Remarks
BATYA WEINBAUM. "Editor's Note"
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Speculating Jewish Women
LIORA MORIEL. "An Introduction, or the Jacket Blurb Comes of Age"
Criticism
SUSAN KRAY. "Refamiliarization: Jewish Women in the Narrative Strategies of Pulp Science Fiction Magazine Stories, 1993-2000"
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GLORIA ORENSTEIN. "Vision and Visibility: Contemporary Jewish Women Artists Visualize the Invisible"
Memoir
PAMELA SARGENT. "Jewish Enough"
Historical Fiction
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LESLIE F. STONE. "Cosmic Joke"
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Ovuminal Work
JUDITH MERRIL. "That Only a Mother"
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Fiction
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MARLEEN S. BARR. "Close Encounters of the Monica Kind"
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E. M. BRONER. "De-Winging the Angel"
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MARILYN GALE. "Lilith 1996"
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BATYA WEINBAUM. "Sasha’s Harlem: Excerpts"
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Poetry
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KAREN ALCALY-GUT. "One of Those Nights"
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MARILYN JURICH. "Even Death Is Uncertain without the Proper Forms"
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CAROL ROSE. "Ex-nihilio"
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LORRAINE SCHEIN. "The Goddess at Bergen-Belsen"
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Reviews
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SCOTT BARR. "Review of The Defiant Muse"
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ROBERT CHARLICK. "Review of Sleeping with Cats"
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PHILLIPA KAFKA. "Review of A Spiritual Life"
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BRIAN KELLEY. "Review of Dreaming the Actual"
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PHYLLIS LASSNER. "Review of Women’s Holocaust Writing"
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DIANA ORENDI. "Review of Soundless Roar"
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AUDREY VANDERFORD. "Review of The Raw Brunettes"
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ILANA WOLPERT. "Review of Bee Season"
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BATYA WEINBAUM. "Review of Klezmer Music"
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Race and Culture
BATYA WEINBAUM. "Editor’s Note"
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Criticism
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ALYSON BUCKMAN. "What Good Is All This to Black People? Octavia Butler’s Reconstruction of Corporeality"
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SHARON DEGRAW. "The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same: Gender and Sexuality in Octavia Butler’s Oeuvre"
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SANDRA GOVAN. "The Parable of the Sower as Rendered by Octavia Butler: Lessons for Our Changing Times"
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STEPHANIE S. TURNER. "What Actually Is: The Insistence of Genre in Octavia Butler’s Kindred"
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Fiction
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DONNA MARIE ROBB. "Soul Spinner"
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Poetry
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RITA GRABOWSKI. "Recessively Blond"
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SHANNON MARIANA HOUSTON. "Haiku"
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Reviews
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NSENGA K. BURTON. "Review of Female Hip-Hop Artists in Outer Space"
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MONIQUE MORRISON. "Octavia Butler Speaks: A Visit to Cleveland State University"
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IFEOMA C.K. NWANKWO. "Review of Brown Girl in the Ring"
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General Reviews
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DEBRA RAE COHEN. "Review of The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction"
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