Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction

Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias is an antholoogy 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?
- D. The Concepts of "Woman" and "Nature"
- E. Why Is Language Important?
- 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
- Recommended Readings
- Index