In the Chinks of the World Machine
In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction is a 1988 work of studies by Sarah Lefanu, republished in 1989 as Feminism and Science Fiction.
Interreferences
- The title is drawn from a phrase in James Tiptree, Jr.'s short story "The Women Men Don't See": "What women do is survive. We live by ones and twos in the chinks of your world-machine."
Editions
- Mar 1988, London, UK: The Women's Press, ISBN 0-7043-4092-5/ISBN 978-0704340923. (trade paperback, as In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction)
- Sep 1989, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-23100-0. (trade paperback, as Feminism and Science Fiction)
- Sep 1989, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-33287-7. (hardcover, as Feminism and Science Fiction)
Reviews & commentaries
- Veronica Hollinger (July 1989). "Feminist Science Fiction: Construction and Deconstruction". Science Fiction Studies (DePauw University) 16-2 (48). http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/review_essays/holl48.htm. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- Schellenberg, James (21 April 2000). Review of Sarah Lafanu's In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction. www.challengingdestiny.com. Retrieved on 16 April 2011.
- "With scattered beginnings in the SF and women’s movement magazines of the early seventies, a uniquely feminist branch of SF criticism emerged in specialized SF journals of the 1980s, with the first monograph appearing in 1989, Sarah Lefanu’s In the Chinks of the World Machine." -- Helen Merrick, Feminist Collections v.30