Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females

Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females

Gender, Temporality-and Yentas

Barr, Marleen S.; Gold, Leigh; Gomel, Elana; Gomel, Elana; Caplan, Jennifer; Brin, Daniel J.; Barr, Marleen S.; Goldstein, Lisa; Gurevitch, Danielle; Brin, David

Lexington Books

12/2024

204

Dura

9781666928167

15 a 20 dias

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Preface: In Praise of Judith Merril, Pamela Sargent

Introduction: The Invisible Jewish Woman or Closed Legs Finkelstein and Princess Vespa are Fake Jews, Marleen S. Barr

Chapter 1: Alien Encounters (of the Jewish Kind), Elana Gomel

Chapter 2: Miriam Michelson's The Superwoman and the Future of Feminist Recovery, Lori Harrison-Kahan

Chapter 3: Seeing Judith Merril's Personal and Professional Maternal I in "That Only a Mother": An Intuitive Close Encounter, Leigh Gold

Chapter 4: On (Not) Saving the World: Joanna Russ' Extra (Ordinary) People, Steven Shaviro

Chapter 5: Traumatic Timescapes: Holocaust Memory in Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and Nava Semel's And the Rat Laughed, Elyce Rae Helford

Chapter 6: Esther Friesner's Funny, Serious, and Seriously Funny Speculative Fiction, Jennifer Caplan

Chapter 7: Gendered Memory/Jewish Biography: Reading Elana Gomel's "Sea of Salt", Danielle Gurevitch

Chapter 8: Imagining a New Ashkenazi Motherland: Alternate History in Simone Zelitch's Judenstaat, Lance Strate

Chapter 9: Motherhood, Survival, and Post-Humanism in Keren Landsman's "Alone, in the Dark," "Burn Alexandra," and The Heart of the Circle, Erga Heller

Chapter 10: Naomi Alderman's Complaint: The Power Addresses Feminist Science Fiction's New Human Female Superheroes and Celebrates Women's Real Bodies, Marleen S. Barr

Chapter 11: Space Time Travel: The R/evolutionary Kabbalistics of Natasha Lyonne's Russian Doll, Adeena Karasick

Chapter 12: Nursing on the Teat of Godzilla: David Brin and Daniel Brin Reminisce With Their Childhood Friend Lisa Goldstein, Lisa Goldstein, David Brin, and Daniel Brin

Afterword: FINALLY!, Jack Dann

About the Editor and Contributors
Cultural Studies;Feminist Jewish Literature;Feminist Theory;Gender Studies;Interdisciplinary Studies;Jewish Studies;Jewish Women Writers;Science Fiction