Examines the work of well-known writers such as Doris Lessing and Ursula Le Guin, neglected writers such as Katherine Burdekin and C.L. Moore, and contemporaries including Suzette Elgin, Gwyneth Jones, Maureen Duffy, and Josephine Saxton. Also examines the sf film and the publishing industry's response to the recent influx of women authors. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Product Description: A case study of one of America's many multi-ethnic border communities, Great Lakes Creoles builds upon recent research on gender, race, ethnicity, and politics as it examines the ways that the old fur trade families experienced and responded to the colonialism of United States expansion...read more

Women Writing Science Fiction: The Frankenstein Inheritance explores the relationship between women, science and fiction through an analysis of science fiction written by women from the turn of the century to the mid 1980s. (view table of contents)

Product Description: How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women? To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics? What has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the academic establishment and the publishing industry? These are just some of the questions addressed by this collection of original essays by women writers, readers and critics of the genre...read more