Future Females, The Next Generation
Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism is a 2000 anthology of feminist SF studies, edited by Marleen Barr.
Editions
- Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. ISBN 084769125X. ISBN 9780847691258.
Summary
"Feminist science fiction pioneer Marleen S. Barr, together with a talented crew of the field's established and emerging theorists, reveal new critical insights in Future Females, the Next Generation. This groundbreaking collection includes contributors from across the globe who find effective venues for imagining feminist thought experiments. A multinational perspective runs through this innovative volume, focusing on the latest dynamic trends in feminist science fiction, such as race, gender, cyberfeminism, the media, and new writers in the field."
Contents
- Raffaella Baccolini. "Gender and Genre in the Feminist Critical Dystopias of Katharine Burdekin, Margaret Atwood, and Octavia Butler."
- Jane Donawerth. "Feminist Dystopias of the 1990's: Record of Failure, Midwife of Hope.", pp. 49-66.
- Carol Pearson. "Coming Home: Four Feminist Utopias and Patriarchal Experience: Mary Bradley Lane, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dorothy Bryant, and Mary Stanton.", pp. 63-70.
- Marleen S. Barr, pp. 67-84. "Post-Phallic Culture: Reality Now Resembles Utopian Feminist Science Fiction"
- Joanna Russ. "Recent Feminist Utopias.", pp. 71-89.
- Susan Kress. "In and Out of Time: The Form of Marge Piercy's Novels." , pp. 109-122.
- Norman N. Holland. "You, U. K. LeGuin.", pp. 125-137.
- Marleen S. Barr: "Charles Bronson, Samurai, and Other Feminine Images: A Transactive Response to The Left Hand of Darkness.", pp. 138-154.
Reviews
- Lorie Sauble-Otto, Review of Barr, Future Females, Rocky Mountain Review (Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association), v.57, n.2 (Fall 2003).