FEMSPEC
An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.
Femspec Vol 5, Issue 1, 2004
Introduction
Editorial Remarks
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BATYA WEINBAUM. "Announcing a Few Changes"
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PATRICIA MELZER AND SHELLEY PRICE. "Editorial Introduction to Gender and Technology in Science Fiction Film"
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Criticism
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ALBERT ANTHONY. "Menacing Technologies: Counterfeit Women and the Mutability of Nature in Science Fiction Cinema"
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MARK BOULD. "Taking the Dream Girls Apart: Molly, Eve VIII, Barb Wire"
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CATHY HAWKINS. "I Married a Misogynist from Outer Space: The Challenge of Being a Bride in 1950s Science Fiction Film"
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PATRICIA MELZER. "There Is No Spoon: Concepts of Subjectivity in The Matrix"
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JEFFREY MIDDENTS. "This Is Not Film: Ef/facing the Screen in Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days"
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K. SURKAN. "I Want To Be a Real Boy: A.I. Robots, Cyborgs, and Mutants as Passing Figures in Science Fiction Film"
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Art
BETH BLINEBURY. "Cyborg Bodies: How to Read the Body"
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Poetry
SHELLEY PRICE. "Animus Mundi, Alien, Wormhole, Golem"
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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"
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General Criticism
GERALDINE WOJNO KIEFER. "Celebrations, Overlays, Matrices: Making Art in the Textures of Collage"
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MARK BOULD. "Gwyneth Jones: An Introduction"
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MARK BOULD. "Incredible Stories about Ordinary People: the Teenage Fiction of Gwyneth Jones/Ann Halam"
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ANDREW BUTLER. "Going Up Hill: An Interview with Gwyneth Jones"
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ISTAN CSICSERY-RONAY JR. "The Lost Child: Notes on White Queen"
Reviews
TARA BETTS. "Brown Girl in the Ring"
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BARBARA J. COOK. "Myth and Ritual in Women's Detective Fiction"
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JANICE C. CROSBY. "Feminist Cabalism 101"
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GERARDO T. CUMMINGS. "Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction"
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ELIZABETH L. P. BRIGGS. "Scheherazade's Sisters: Trickster Heroines and Their Stories in World Literature"
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G.WARLOCK VANCE. "Images of Fear: How Horror Stories Helped Shape Culture (1818-1918)"
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JANICE M. BOGSTAD. "Critical Theory and Science Fiction"
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THERESA A.L. CRATER. "Cauldron of Changes: Feminist Spirituality in Fantastic Fiction"
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PAUL EROS. "A Different Lens: Gender Studies and the Inklings"
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DIONA SHAW. "Communities of the Heart"
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DIONA SHAW. "Chicana Ways"
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BRUCE GEHIERE. "Spiritual Syncretism, Innovation in the Speculative Realm and Radio Theater"
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