FEMSPEC
An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.
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A Little Light Shed on: Into Darkness Peering | Janice Bogstad

Imagine a Fish | Darko Suvin

Juneteenth | Christina Springer

Margins Made Visible | Earl Pike

Sex Role Reversals in Star Trek's Planets of
Women as Indices of Second Wave Media Protest | Batya Weinbaum

The Surrealist Cosmovision of Bridget Tichenor | Gloria Orenstein

Transcending Gender: Challenging the Binary Divide at the Third International
Congress on Sex and Gender | Mary Fambrough

WisCon 22 and the (Not So) Secret Feminist Cabal | William Clemente

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Beast | Ruth Knafo Setton

Made in Canada | Nancy Johnston

No Place, the Good Place, a New Place | Sylvia Kelso

Reception of Fairy Tale Motifs in Texts by
Twentieth-Century German Women Writers | Barbara Mabee

Revelation 24:12 | Linda Eisenstein

Surrealist Women | Gloria Orenstein

The First FEMSPEC Salon: NWSA Albuquerque | Batya Weinbaum

Two Reviews | Liisa Hake

Women Alone, Men Alone: Single-Sex Utopias | Brian Attebery

Writer's Respite at Wiscon '99 | Phoebe Wray

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Coyote Wants a Baby and Father Coyote | Stephanie Sellers

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"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 | Partricia Melzer

Journey through Mlle. De Scudery’s Carte de Tendre | Gloria Orenstein

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Bluestockings Beware: Cultural Backlash and the
Reconfiguration of the Witch in Popular
Nineteenth-Century Literature| Linda Holland Toll

Cartesian Nuts: Rewriting the Platonic Androgyne
in Angela Carter’s Japanese Surrealism | Scott A. Dimovitz

Crone's Revenge | Carole Spearin McCauley

Gender Issues in The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction | Beverly Bow

Orion | Kathie Austin

Phenomenal Women: The Shape-Shifter
Archetype in Postcolonial Magical Realist Fiction | Megan Musgrave

Quiescent | Sharon King

Review of Having a Good Cry: Effeminate
Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms | Erin A. Smith

Review of Slayage: The On-line International
Journal of Buffy Studies | Tonya Cochran

Review of The Song of the Goddess | Lynne Reed

Space Opera: Melodrama, Feminism And The Women Of Farscape | Carlen LaVigne

Taking Out the Trash: Octavia E. Butler’s Wild
Seed and the Feminist Voice in American SF | Andrew Deman
