Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction

Cover of 2007 Prometheus Books edition

Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias is an anthology edited by Judith A. Little.

Editions

• 2007: Prometheus Books, 370 pp. ISBN 1591024145; ISBN-13 978-1591024149

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction

• Part I: Human Nature and Reality
  • Introduction
  • A. What Does It Mean to Be Human?
    • "No Woman Born" by C.L. Moore
  • B. What Are Women and Men Really Like?
    • "Survival Ship" by Judith Merril
    • "Abominable" by Carol Emshwiller
    • "Adam Marko's Journal; Male Compensation Theory" from The Y Chromosome by Leona Gom
    • "The Elizabeth Complex" by Karen Joy Fowler
  • C. How Significant Is the Reproductive Difference?
    • "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler
  • D. The Concepts of "Woman" and "Nature"
    • "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McIntyre
    • "His Vegetable Wife" by Pat Murphy
  • E. Why Is Language Important?
    • "Speech Sounds" by Octavia E. Butler

• Part II: Dystopias and Utopias
  • Introduction
  • A. Dystopias: The Worst of All Possible Worlds
    • The Possible Present
    • "For the Sake of Grace" by Suzette Haden Elgin
    • "Pairpuppets" by Manuel von Loggem
    • "Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!" by Alice B. Sheldon ("Alice B. Sheldon, whose best-known pseudonym was James Tiptree, Jr., wrote this story as Racoona Sheldon")
    • Far in the Future
    • "Wives" by Lisa Tuttle
    • "Fears" by Pamela Sargent
    • "Jael's World" from The Female Man by Joanna Russ
  • B. Separatist Utopias: Worlds of Difference
    • Why Separate?
    • "Daya Tells a Tale" from The Furies by Suzy McKee Charnas
    • "The Worlds of Jeannine and Joanna" from The Female Man by Joanna Russ
    • All-Female Societies and Planets
    • "Oath of the Free Amazons" from The Shattered Chain by Marion Zimmer Bradley
    • "Janet's World" from The Female Man by Joanna Russ
    • "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
  • C. Androgynous Utopias: Worlds of Equality
    • "X: A Fabulous Child's Story" by Lois Gould
    • "Interlocking Pieces by Molly Gloss
    • "Options" by John Varley

• Recommended Readings
• Index