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Women worldwalkers : new dimensions of science fiction and fantasy

Title
Women worldwalkers : new dimensions of science fiction and fantasy / edited by Jane B. Weedman.
Author
Comparative Literative Symposium (16th : 1983 : Texas Tech University)
Publication
Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech Press, 1985.

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Additional Authors
  • Weedman, Jane Branham.
  • Texas Tech University. Interdepartmental Committee on Comparative Literature.
Description
250 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Science fiction > Women authors > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Fantasy fiction > Women authors > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Science fiction > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Fantasy fiction > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Women and literature > Congresses
  • Women in literature > Congresses
  • Fantasy literature > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Fantasy literature
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Fantasy fiction > Women authors
  • Science fiction
  • Science fiction > Women authors
  • Women and literature
  • Women in literature
  • Frau
  • Science-Fiction
  • Kongress
  • Fantastische Literatur
  • Fantasy fiction > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Fantasy fiction > Women authors > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Science fiction > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Science fiction > Women authors > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Women and literature > Congresses
  • Women in literature > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • "Constitutes the proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Comparative Literature Symposium, organized by Texas Tech University's Interdepartmental Committee on Comparative Literature, and held 26 through 28 January 1983"--T.p. verso.
  • "ISSN: 0084-9103"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Woman : the other alien in Alien / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- Responsibilities and temptations of women science fiction writers / Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Women and technology in science fiction : an uneasy alliance / Valerie Broege -- Earth mothers or male memories : Wilhelm, Lem, and future women / Patrice Caldwell -- The classical humanism of Philip K. Dick / Peder Christiansen -- Types of feminist fantasy and science fiction / Kathleen Cioffi -- Orders of chaos : the science fiction of Joanna Russ / Samuel R. Delany -- Christa Reinig's Emasculation : male chauvinism as science fiction / Esther N. Elstun -- "A good game to play" : Brian Aldiss and the mother of science fiction / David Leon Higdon.
  • Wife/mother, sorceress/keeper, Amazon/renunciate : status ambivalence and conflicting roles on the planet Darkover / Barbara Hornum -- The evolving consciousness of feminine identity in Doris Lessing's The memoirs of a survivor and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass / Sandra Lott -- Women of Dune : Frank Herbert as social reactionary? / Miriam Youngerman Miller -- The brass brassiere : sexual dimorphism in science fiction illustration / Marilyn R. Mumford -- Worlds of words and swords : Suzette Haden Elgin and Joanna Russ at work / Thelma J. Shinn -- "Great country for men and dogs, but tough on women and mules" : sex and status in recent science fiction utopias / Lynn F. Williams -- Gender roles in the Darkover novels of Marion Zimmer Bradley / Diane S. Wood.
ISBN
  • 0896721337
  • 9780896721333
LCCN
87175174
OCLC
  • ocm21870243
  • 21870243
  • SCSB-644234
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library