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Femspec Vol 5, Issue 1, 2004

Introduction

Editorial Remarks

BATYA WEINBAUM. "Announcing a Few Changes"

PATRICIA MELZER AND SHELLEY PRICE. "Editorial Introduction to Gender and Technology in Science Fiction Film"

Criticism

ALBERT ANTHONY. "Menacing Technologies: Counterfeit Women and the Mutability of Nature in Science Fiction Cinema"

MARK BOULD. "Taking the Dream Girls Apart: Molly, Eve VIII, Barb Wire"

CATHY HAWKINS. "I Married a Misogynist from Outer Space: The Challenge of Being a Bride in 1950s Science Fiction Film"

PATRICIA MELZER. "There Is No Spoon: Concepts of Subjectivity in The Matrix"

JEFFREY MIDDENTS. "This Is Not Film: Ef/facing the Screen in Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days"

K. SURKAN. "I Want To Be a Real Boy: A.I. Robots, Cyborgs, and Mutants as Passing Figures in Science Fiction Film"

Art

BETH BLINEBURY. "Cyborg Bodies: How to Read the Body"

Poetry

SHELLEY PRICE. "Animus Mundi, Alien, Wormhole, Golem"

Film Review

MICHELLE RENEE MATISONS. "The Cyber-Genius Hysterical Mother and the Techno-Virgin/Man's Man: Thoughts on Cronenberg's eXistnZ"

 

Selected Bibliography

PATRICIA MELZER AND SHELLEY PRICE. "Gender and Technology in Science Fiction Film"

General Criticism

GERALDINE WOJNO KIEFER. "Celebrations, Overlays, Matrices: Making Art in the Textures of Collage"

MARK BOULD. "Gwyneth Jones: An Introduction"

MARK BOULD. "Incredible Stories about Ordinary People: the Teenage Fiction of Gwyneth Jones/Ann Halam"

ANDREW BUTLER. "Going Up Hill: An Interview with Gwyneth Jones"

ISTAN CSICSERY-RONAY JR. "The Lost Child: Notes on White Queen"


Reviews

TARA BETTS. "Brown Girl in the Ring"

BARBARA J. COOK. "Myth and Ritual in Women's Detective Fiction"

JANICE C. CROSBY. "Feminist Cabalism 101"

GERARDO T. CUMMINGS. "Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction"

ELIZABETH L. P. BRIGGS. "Scheherazade's Sisters: Trickster Heroines and Their Stories in World Literature"

G.WARLOCK VANCE. "Images of Fear: How Horror Stories Helped Shape Culture (1818-1918)"

JANICE M. BOGSTAD. "Critical Theory and Science Fiction"

THERESA A.L. CRATER. "Cauldron of Changes: Feminist Spirituality in Fantastic Fiction"

PAUL EROS. "A Different Lens: Gender Studies and the Inklings"

DIONA SHAW. "Communities of the Heart"

DIONA SHAW. "Chicana Ways"

BRUCE GEHIERE. "Spiritual Syncretism, Innovation in the Speculative Realm and Radio Theater"

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