Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism ed. Helen Merrick & Tess Williams (University of Western Australia Press, 1999, 1-876268-32-8, A$29.95, 472pp, tp, an, cover by Freddie Baer)
Anthology of and about feminist SF, with 11 stories, 17 non-fiction pieces, and two poems. Authors include Elisabeth Vonarburg, Gwyneth Jones, Ursula K. Le Guin. Introduction by Jeanne Gomoll. There is a supplementary bibliography with a selected list of feminist SF.
- xiii · Preface · Helen Merrick & Tess Williams · pr
- 1 · Introduction · Jeanne Gomoll · in
- 12 · An Envoy from Senectutus: WisCon 20 Guest of Honour Speech · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar
- 20 · Handwork · Rebecca Marjesdatter · pm
- 24 · The Small Black Box of Morality [Hwarhath] · Eleanor Arnason · vi Tales of the Unanticipated #16, 1996
- 29 · Reading Piebald Patterns in Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness · Ellen Peel · ar Semiotics Around the World: Synthesis in Diversity, Mouton Gruyter, 1997 [Ref. Ursula K. Le Guin]
- 41 · And She Was the Word · Tess Williams · ss Eidolon Spring 1996
- 60 · Of Women and Wonder: A Conversation with Suzy McKee Charnas · Bill Clemente · iv [Ref. Suzy McKee Charnas]
- 82 · A Beauty, a Phantom, and Two Talking Heads: The Psychology of Confinement in Suzy McKee Charnas’ ’Beauty and the Opéra’ · Jennifer Stevenson · ar [Ref. Suzy McKee Charnas]
- 102 · Notes of a Border Crosser · Susanna Sturgis · ar
- 115 · From Female Man to Feminist Fan: Uncovering ’Herstory’ in the Annals of SF Fandom · Helen Merrick · ar
- 140 · A Non-Traveller Spends a Month Away from Home · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · ar
- 147 · And Salome Danced [Mars] · Kelley Eskridge · ss Little Deaths ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1994
- 162 · The Erotics of Gender Ambiguity: A Fem-SF Symposium · Helen Merrick · ar
- 184 · The Kidnapping of Baroness 5 · Katherine MacLean · nv Analog Science Fiction and Fact January 1995
- 209 · Of Synners and Brainworms: Feminism on the Wire · Rebecca Holden · ar
- 228 · Home by the Sea · Elisabeth Vonarburg; translated by Jane Brierley · ss Tesseracts ed. Judith Merril, Porcepic, 1985
translated from the French (“La maison au bord de la mer”, Dix nouvelles de science-fiction québécoise ed. André Carpentier, Les Quinze, 1985).
- 247 · Writing from the Body · Nicola Griffith · ar Science Fiction Eye #15, Fall 1997; revised.
- 261 · A Habit of Waste · Nalo Hopkinson · ss Fireweed #53, 1996
- 277 · Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower: One Alternative to a Futureless Future · Lisbeth Gant-Britton · ar [Ref. Octavia Butler]
- 295 · The Freedom Maze (draft) · Delia Sherman · ex
- 309 · Hush My Mouth · Suzette Haden Elgin · ss Alternative Histories ed. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Garland, 1986
- 319 · The Onion Skin Theory of Identity, the Paint Pot Theory of Gender, and the Blu-tack Theory of Position · Rosaleen Love · ar
- 329 · The Universe of Things · Gwyneth Jones · ss New Worlds 3 ed. David Garnett, Gollancz, 1993, as “The Mechanic”
- 342 · Illusion and Expectation: The Baking of a Science Fiction Award · Pat Murphy · ar Science Fiction Eye #9, November 1991; revised.
adapted from a speech given at Wiscon 15, March 2, 1991.
- 351 · Ideologically Labile Fruit Crisp · Eileen Gunn · ar The Bakery Men Don’t See, SF3, 1991
- 355 · Tiptree Stories · Justine Larbalestier · ar [Ref. James Tiptree, Jr.]
- 370 · The Marianas Islands · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Intersections ed. John Kessel, Mark L. Van Name & Richard Butner, Tor, 1996
- 383 · Letterspace: In the Chinks Between Published Fiction and Published Criticism · Lois McMaster Bujold & Sylvia Kelso · ar
- 410 · Dvorzjak Symphony · Candas Jane Dorsey · ss Alberta ReBound ed. Aritha van Herk, NeWest Press, 1990
- 419 · She Undoes · Greer Gilman · pm Faces of Fantasy: Photographs by Patti Perret, Tor, 1996
- 422 · Better to Have Loved: Excerpts from a Life · Judith Merril · ar
- 443 · Supplementary Bibliography: Select List of Additional Critical Resources on Feminist SF · [uncredited] · bi
- 462 · Selected List of Feminist SF · [uncredited] · bi
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