Batya Weinbaum
Batya Weinbaum is a writer and scholar of feminist SF.
She has also published Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities, with University of Texas Press (2000) which explored mythic archetypes of women in separate societies since pre-Greek times, straight through to research in Isla Mujeres in Mexico, which involved ethnographic study. Portions of this research, particularly concerned with the interaction of Disney and local archetypes, appeared in such journals as Literary Studies East and West, and Journal of American Culture.
Works
- Fiction
- The Island of Floating Women and Other Stories (Clothespin Fever PRess, 1994)
- Nonfiction
- Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities (University of Texas Press (2000)) "which explored mythic archetypes of women in separate societies since pre-Greek times, straight through to research in Isla Mujeres in Mexico, which involved ethnographic study."[1]