FEMSPEC
An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.
Femspec Vol 23, Issue 2, 2023
Call for Papers for Femspec 24.1
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Critical Articles
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MERRY BYRD. The Promise of Janus-Faced Futures: George S. Schuyler’s Black No More & Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s We Cast a Shadow: A Novel
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NANCY KNOWLES. Collaboration and Subsistence: Alix E. Harrow's Once and Future Witches through an Ecofeminist Lens
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BRIANA WHITESIDE. Sites of Resistance: Justice, Healing, and Liberation in Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling
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Reports from the Femspec Team
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NOLAN BOYD. On Finding an Academic Job in the Humanities in 2023
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KIM HORNER. Why I Started a PhD in Literature at 55
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MIGUEL SEBASTIÁN-MARTÍN. Some Thoughts on Guest-Editing a Special Issue
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Astro Speculations, by Merry Byrd
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Event coverage, by Batya Weinbaum
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Femspec Goes to the Annual MOM (Museum of Motherhood) Conference
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Femspec Goes to the ASWM (Association for the Study of Women in Mythology) Conference on Waters of Life
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Femspec Goes to the Cinema Systers Film Festival
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Books and Media Reviewed
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MARTHA SWIFT. Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind, by Louise Dunlap
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SO YOUNG KOO. Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood, by Leah Phillips
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SARAH NOLAN-BRUECK. Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA’s Stop-Motion Witchcraft, by Mihaela Mihailova
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GARY MCDONALD. Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination: A Critical Companion, by Harlan Wilson
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GARY MCDONALD. Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond, by Douglas Vakoch
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JANICE DZOVINAR. Okoomian – A Snake Falls to Earth, by Darcie Little Badger
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SARA TABUYO-SANTACLARA. Extrapolations, by Scott Z. Burns
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Books and Media Received
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