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'''''Where No Man has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction''''', edited by [[Lucie Armitt]], is a 1990 anthology of critical essays on women and science fiction. It includes essays on amongst others [[Charlotte Haldane]], [[Katherine Burdekin]], [[Maureen Duffy]], [[Ursula Le Guin]], [[Doris Lessing]], [[C. L. Moore]] by [[Lisa Tuttle]], [[Gwyneth Jones]], [[Sarah Lefanu]], Josephine Saxton]] and others. | '''''Where No Man has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction''''', edited by [[Lucie Armitt]], is a 1990 anthology of critical essays on women and science fiction. It includes essays on amongst others [[Charlotte Haldane]], [[Katherine Burdekin]], [[Maureen Duffy]], [[Ursula Le Guin]], [[Doris Lessing]], [[C. L. Moore]] by [[Lisa Tuttle]], [[Gwyneth Jones]], [[Sarah Lefanu]], [[Josephine Saxton]] and others. | ||
'''Abstract:''' "From Mary Shelley onwards, women writers have played a central role in the shaping and reshaping of science fiction, irrespective of its undeniably partriarchal image. "Where No Man Has Gone Before" traces the history of the genre from Frankenstein to the present day, focusing on the work of women whose writing has been central to its development this century. The contributors - writers, readers and critics of science fiction - examine the work of well-known writers such as Doris Lessing and Ursula Le Guin as well as others. These writers have not only subverted the science fiction form and its conventions for their own ends, but have also contributed a specifically female voice to a seemingly male genre. As well as essays on fiction, the collection includes work on the science fiction film and its implications for women, and addresses the issue of how the publishing industry has responded to the recent influx of women authors." | '''Abstract:''' "From Mary Shelley onwards, women writers have played a central role in the shaping and reshaping of science fiction, irrespective of its undeniably partriarchal image. "Where No Man Has Gone Before" traces the history of the genre from Frankenstein to the present day, focusing on the work of women whose writing has been central to its development this century. The contributors - writers, readers and critics of science fiction - examine the work of well-known writers such as Doris Lessing and Ursula Le Guin as well as others. These writers have not only subverted the science fiction form and its conventions for their own ends, but have also contributed a specifically female voice to a seemingly male genre. As well as essays on fiction, the collection includes work on the science fiction film and its implications for women, and addresses the issue of how the publishing industry has responded to the recent influx of women authors." | ||
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Where No Man has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction, edited by Lucie Armitt, is a 1990 anthology of critical essays on women and science fiction. It includes essays on amongst others Charlotte Haldane, Katherine Burdekin, Maureen Duffy, Ursula Le Guin, Doris Lessing, C. L. Moore by Lisa Tuttle, Gwyneth Jones, Sarah Lefanu, Josephine Saxton and others.
Abstract: "From Mary Shelley onwards, women writers have played a central role in the shaping and reshaping of science fiction, irrespective of its undeniably partriarchal image. "Where No Man Has Gone Before" traces the history of the genre from Frankenstein to the present day, focusing on the work of women whose writing has been central to its development this century. The contributors - writers, readers and critics of science fiction - examine the work of well-known writers such as Doris Lessing and Ursula Le Guin as well as others. These writers have not only subverted the science fiction form and its conventions for their own ends, but have also contributed a specifically female voice to a seemingly male genre. As well as essays on fiction, the collection includes work on the science fiction film and its implications for women, and addresses the issue of how the publishing industry has responded to the recent influx of women authors."
Publications
- Nov 1990, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-04448-0. ISBN-13 978-0-415-04448-6. (paperback) Anthology, 240 pages.
- Jan 1991, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-04447-2. ISBN-13 978-0-415-04447-9. (hardcover)
Contents
- Introduction - essay by Lucie Armitt. pp. 1-14.
- Part I. Writing Through the Century: Individual Authors
- Elizabeth Russell, "The Loss of the Feminine Principle in Charlotte Haldane's Man's World and Katherine Burdekin's Swastika Night." pp. 15-28.
- Sarah Gamble, "'Shambleau...and Others': The Role of the Female in the Fiction of C. L. Moore." pp. 29-49.
- Susan Bassnett, "Remaking the Old World: Ursula le Guin and the American Tradition." pp. 50-66.
- Moira Monteith, "Doris Lessing and the Politics of Violence". pp. 67-84.
- Part II. Aliens and Others: A Contemporary Perspective
- Jenny Newman, "Mary and the Monster: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Maureen Duffy's Gor Saga." pp. 85-96.
- Lisa Tuttle, "Pets and Monsters: Metamorphoses in Recent Science Fiction." pp. 97-108.
- Susan Thomas, "Between the Boys and their Toys: The Science Fiction Film." pp. 109-122.
- Lucy Armitt, "Your Word Is My Command: The Structures of Language and Power in Women's Science Fiction." pp. 123-138.
- Erica Sheen, "'I'm not in the Business, I am the Business'." pp. 139-164.
- Part III. Readers and Writers: SF as Genre Fiction
- Gwyneth Jones, "Writing Science Fiction for the Teenage Reader." pp. 165-177.
- Sarah Lefanu, "Sex, Sub-atomic Particles, and Sociology." pp. 178-185.
- Nickianne Moody, "Meave and Guinevere: Women's Fantasy Writin in the Science Fiction Marketplace." pp. 186-204.
- Josephine Saxton, "'Goodbye to all that...'." pp. 205-217.
- Bibliography pp. 218-224.