Where No Man Has Gone Before

Where No Man has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction, edited by Lucie Armitt, is a 1990 anthology of critical essays on women an science fiction.

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

• New York: Routledge, 1990. ISBN 0415044480. ISBN-13: 978-0415044486. Anthology, 240 pages.

Contents

• Introduction.
• Includes essays on Charlotte Haldane, Katherine Burdekin, Maureen Duffy, Gwyneth Jones, Ursula Le Guin, Doris Lessing, C. L. Moore, etc.

• Lucy Armitt, "Your Word Is My Command: The Structures of Language and Power in Women's Science Fiction", p.136.
• Sarah Lefanu, "Sex, Sub-atomic Particles, and Sociology", p.178.