top of page

Femspec Vol 19, Issue 1, 2019 

Editor’s Corner


BATYA WEINBAUM. "Introduction to Issue 19.1" 


Featured Artist


SUSANA S. VALENZUELA. La Reina 


Critical Articles


ELISABETTA CARRARO. "Not Only a Mother: Primary Communication and Collective Symbolism in Judith Merril’s 'That Only a Mother'" 


JENNIFER COLBY. "Transforming Tonantzin/Guadalupe: Women’s Art and Dialogue in Central California" 


BATYA WEINBAUM. "Contemporary Myth Making on Isla Mujeres: The Goddess Gets a Megaphone and Shouts Back, Assuring Us of Her Return"


Interviews


ALICIA COLE. "The Will and Skill of Woman, The Lioness Within and Without: An
Interview with Genevieve Vaughan"


ALICIA COLE. "Repairing the Shatter: Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid’s Tale and More"


Fiction


MARLEEN S. BARR. "My Unfair Trumpie Closely Encounters ‘Julie Andrews’"


Memorial


REBECCA VINCENT. "Remembering Mary Oliver"


Conference and Event Coverage

"The Women’s Spirituality Graduate Studies Program at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)"


KRIS MALONE GROSSMAN and MARA LYNN KELLER. "Women Rising! New Visions for a Post-Patriarchal World" 


BATYA WEINBAUM. "CIIS-Women’s Spirituality Department’s First Biannual Conference" 


GENEVIEVE VAUGHAN. "Visions of Post-Patriarchy" 


Notes from the Inside


BATYA WEINBAUM. "Behind the Scenes" 


Reviews


ALESSANDRA ALBANO. "Freshwater: The Destabilizing Voice of Mental Illness" 


LAURA BIRKIN. "Life Without Roe v. Wade: A Review of Red Clocks


KELSEY PAIGE BUSBY. "Review of Naomi Mercer’s Toward Utopia


MERRY LYNN BYRD. "Women Killin’ It in Killing Times: A Review of Remnant, The Wolves of Winter, and Drop by Drop


WINTER ELLIOTT. "The “Heart and Stomach of a Woman”?: Gendering War in R. F. Kuang’s The Poppy War" 


CHRISTOPHER LESLIE. "Hidden or Hindered? Recasting Women in Technology" 


SONIA MICHAELS. "Post-apocalypse Meets Millennial Malaise in Ling Ma’s
Debut Novel, “Severance”" 


LANI RAVIN. "Genius Locii" 


Books and Media Received 


Contributors 

8

​

​

​

​

13

​

​

​

16

​

​

​

​

33

​

​

​

53

​

​

​

​

​

​

71

​

​

​

76

​

​

​

​

78

​

​

​

​

82

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

85

​

​

​

94

​

​

105

​

​

​

​

113

​

​

​

114

​

​

116

​

​

118

​

​

120

​

​

​

124

​

​

​

127

​

​

140

​

​

​

142

​

144

​

149

19.1.PNG
bottom of page