Partners in Wonder

Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965 by Eric Leif Davin.

Description: Partners in Wonder revolutionizes our knowledge of women and early science fiction. Davin finds that at least 203 female authors published over a thousand stories in science fiction magazines between 1926 and 1965. This work explores the distinctly different form of science fiction that females wrote, offers a comprehensive bibliography of these works, and provides biographies of 133 of these women authors.

Publications

• Lexington Books (2005), ISBN 0739112678, ISBN-13 978-0739112670

Contents

• Bibliographic Tables - p.xi
• Acknowledgments - p.xiii
• Introduction: Science Fiction and the Contested Terrain of Popular Culture - p.1

Part One - Presumption of Prejudice. Science Fiction's Contested Terrain, 1926-1949

• 1 - The Genesis of the Mythology - p.29
• 2 - Present at the Creation - p.53
• 3 - Weird Sisters - p.64
• 4 - Female Fandom - p.74
• 5 - Women Without Names - p.96
• 6 - The Usual Suspects - p.127
• 7 - Anecdotes and Antidotes - p.154
• 8 - Haven in a Heartless World - p.163
• 9 - Ebony and Ivory - p.192
• 10 - Femalien Empathy - p.212
• 11 - Feminist Futures - p.225
• 12 - History and Mythistory - p.239

Part Two - The Crest of the First Wave. Science Fiction's Female Counter-Culture, 1950-1960

• 13 - Ecce Femina - p.245
• 14 - Alone Against Tomorrow - p.262
• 15 - Across the Great Divide - p.276
• 16 - A Counter-Culture of Tending and Befriending - p.287

Part Three - Hidden from History. The Ebbing of First Wave Women's Science Fiction, 1961-1965

• 17 - Into Time's Abyss - p.301
• 18 - The Persistence of Myth - p.312

• Appendix I: Bibliography of Women Science Fiction Writers, 1926-1965 - p.317
• Appendix II: The Women That Time Forgot, 1926-1960 - p.369
• Some Online Resources - p.417
• Index - p.419
• About the Author - p.431

Criticism and reviews

• Book Review, Extrapolation (2006): "Unfortunately, his attempt to correct the entire SF critical community from without results in three major errors that undermine the entire integrity of his project."