FEMSPEC
An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.
Femspec Vol 7, Issue 2, 2006
Editorial Remarks
BATYA WEINBAUM
Criticism
BRUCE E. DRUSHEL. "Pandora’s Box in Cyberspace: The On-line Alternative Fan Sites of Hercules: The Legendary Journey"
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ROMAYNE SMITH FULLERTON. "Not Of Woman Born: Fairy Tale Mothers for Postmodern Literary Children"
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MARY KIRK. "Vision of the Possible: Models for Women’s Heroic Journey Applied to Madrone’s Path in The Fifth Sacred Thing"
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C. S’THEMBILE WEST. "The Competing Demands of Community Survival and Self-Preservation in Octavia Butler’s Kindred"
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Ethnography Through Your Soul
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GLORIA ORENSTEIN. "When the Imaginary Becomes Real, as Surrealism Said It Would: 'All the Rest Is Literature'"
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ELLA JO STREET. "The Origin of Tarot"
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Fiction
MONICA DE NEYMET DE GIACOMAN. "Living Hours"
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Poetry
KATHLEEN McCONNELL. "Excerpts from The Inevitable Feminist Treatise on Catwoman"
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AIDAN THOMPSON. "Maple Tree excerpt from Crossings"
Reviews
ERIC DROWN. Who? Review of Athena’s Daughters: Television’s New Woman Warriors"
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ERIC DROWN. "'Ooooo!, We Hate Bush' Review of Hollywood’s New Radicalism: War, Globalization and the Movies from Reagan to George W. Bush"
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SHANNAN PALMA. "Review of From Alien to The Matrix: Reading SF Films"
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Memorial
GLORIA ORENSTEIN. "Monique Wittig"
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ARDYS OF BERKELEY. "Tillie Olsen"
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