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"All That You Touch You Change": Utopian Desire and the Concept of Change in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Patricia Melzer, Femspec Issue 3.2 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 12,530. Language: English. Published: December 16, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Feminism & Feminist Theory
This analysis examines two literary narratives by Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) that elucidate the intersection of three fields in Western thought: the notion of utopia, feminist politics and theory, and feminist science fiction.
"Journey through Mlle. De Scudery’s Carte de Tendre" by Gloria Orenstein, Femspec Issue 3.2 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 8,110. Language: English. Published: December 16, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Feminism & Feminist Theory
La Carte de Tendre or the Map of the country of Tenderness can be viewed as a precursor of many board games, and, one might also claim that it foreshadows certain contemporary computer games. However, I see it more as a map of Mlle. De Scudery’s desire, and of the emotional geography of the territory of her political ambition and her sexual imagination.
"Malkah, [Old] Age, and Jewish Identity in Marge Piercy’s He, She and It" by Naomi Mercer, Femspec Issue 15 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 7,380. Language: English. Published: December 6, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Feminism & Feminist Theory
Writing from within the Jewish tradition, Marge Piercy’s novel, He, She and It, contributes to the on-going debate regarding gender equality and kyriarchal conceptions of older women through challenging the inclusion, or exclusion, of the Other including the elder in social institutions. 
2 Interviews by Stephanie Rogers, Femspec Issue 15 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 5,130. Language: English. Published: December 8, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Feminism & Feminist Theory
Interviews with Ursula K. Le Guin and Marge Piercy by Stephanie Rogers
3 Conferences, Femspec Issue 15 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 4,150. Language: English. Published: December 8, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Feminism & Feminist Theory
Includes: MARGARET CRUIKSHANK. Paper from a NWSA Panel on Science Fiction and Ageing: Oakland, 2012 JENNIFER JODELL. Report on “Agents of Change”: Feminist SF Critics Meet Feminist SF Authors at University of Oregon BATYA WEINBAUM. Femspec Salons at OLOC and NWSA, 2014
A Little Light Shed on: Into Darkness Peering, Femspec Issue 1.1 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 960. Language: English. Published: April 10, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Minority Studies
Bogstad's review of Elizabeth Ann Leonard's collection Into Darkness Peering: Race and Color in the Fantastic, Number 74, Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Westport, CT: Greenwood 1997, 95 pp) commends the volume for remarkable feats in the history of science fiction criticism.
Beast, Femspec Issue 1.2 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 3,950. Language: English. Published: April 21, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Women's fiction » Feminist
This is a work of fiction that starts out by showing marriage (sex) as being the way to let out one's true passion and true self. The use of subtle magical realism helps the author to tell of the enjoyable and the frightening aspects that co-exist while experiencing sex within the marriage.
Birthing in a Hotel Room in San Antonio, Femspec Issue 1.1 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 3,550. Language: English. Published: April 10, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies
This brief introduction to the journal explains why the women writers and critics felt a need to begin an interdisciplinary journal. One reason for this need to create the journal was a common feeling of being alienated as writers in male-dominated publishing circles.
Bluestockings Beware: Cultural Backlash and the Reconfiguration of the Witch in Popular Nineteenth-Century Literature. Femspec Issue 6.2, 2005 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 10,450. Language: English. Published: March 3, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies, Essay » Literature
The author “decided to view four nineteenth century short stories that reflect this cultural linkage through the looking glass of narratives of American witch-hunting, Puritan theology, and the history of women’s changing roles in mid-nineteenth century America."
Book Reviews and Books & Media Received, Femspec Issue 9.1, 2008 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 4,160. Language: English. Published: March 26, 2015 . Categories: Essay » Literature, Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies
Book Reviews of two Nava Semel books: IsraIsland. Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books: Tel-Aviv, Miskal, 2005, 275 pp., paperback, Hebrew and The Rat Laughs. Tel-Aviv, Miskal Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books, 2007, both reviewed by Lani Ravin and several books and media received. Summarized by different Femspec staff members.
Book Reviews and Books and Media Received, Femspec Issue 15 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 6,000. Language: English. Published: December 8, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Feminism & Feminist Theory
Desert Years: Undreaming the American Dream, by Cynthia Rich and Look Me in the Eye: Old Women Ageing and Ageism, by Cynthia Rich and Barbara McDonald (Reviewed by Maria Alberto) A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tices, by C. A. Conrad (Reviewed by Maija Hatton) Ardor: Poems of Life, by Janine Canan (Reviewed by Maija Hatton) The Goddess Festival: Restoring the Balance, Faye
Book and Film Reviews and Books Received, Femspec double issue v. 8 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 5,040. Language: English. Published: January 22, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies, Essay » Literature
Book reviews of Daughters of the Great Star by Diana Rivers; Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey and Naomi Mitchison, a Profile of Her Life and Work by Lesley Hall. Review of the film, Fissures.
Care Work, Age, and Culture in Butler’s Parable Series by Derek Thiess, Femspec Issue 15 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 10,300. Language: English. Published: December 6, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Feminism & Feminist Theory
With the growing popularity of post-apocalyptic scenarios, not just in SF literature but also in reality television shows about survivalism such as Doomsday Preppers (2011), Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) are more relevant than ever.
Cartesian Nuts: Rewriting the Platonic Androgyne in Angela Carter’s Japanese Surrealism, Femspec Issue 6.2, 2005 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 7,320. Language: English. Published: March 3, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Gender studies, Essay » Literature
“In her otherwise largely realist fiction before Japan, Carter often used a male protagonist, her feminism consisted mainly of female characters’ exploitation and final destruction or violently taking the role of the male characters. This binary, as it happens, informs Carter’s analysis of Sade’s work, where women are classified into two types."
Clairvoyant Visions and Dreams of Peace: The Art of Betty La Duke by Gloria Orenstein, Femspec Issue 16.1 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 6,350. Language: English. Published: November 19, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Feminism & Feminist Theory
Gloria Orenstein examines the work of artist, Betty La Duke.
Coyote Wants a Baby and Father Coyote, two short stories by Stephanie Sellers, Femspec vol.2 issues 1 and 2 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 3,900. Language: English. Published: April 21, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » Female authors, Fiction » Women's fiction » Feminist
Two short stories by Native American Stephanie Sellers. She tells the story of a mythic coyote who wants to give birth. When Nurse I'm-in-Charge rammed the wires to the heart monitor up Coyote's vagina, she ordered him to stop screaming. "Good girls deliver quietly," she told him.
Creative Work (Poems, Fiction, and Art), Femspec Issue 15 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 2,740. Language: English. Published: December 8, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » Feminist
Features poems by: ANTIGA. I am the Old Hag SUSA SILVERMARIE. An Intimate Conversation BATYA WEINBAUM. Epitaph for my Tombstone Fiction: SAVANNAH MILLER. Omens, Chapter 1 R. ELENA TABACHNICK. Phoenix End Art: JENNY WRENN. Furies 1 JENNY WRENN. Furies 2 JENNY WRENN. The Phoenix
Critical Articles: “The Fairy Tale That Won’t Behave”?: Ageing and Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and Matthew Vaughn’s Film Adaptation by Matthew Crofts and Janine Hatter, Femspec Issue 16.1   by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 6,940. Language: English. Published: November 13, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Feminism & Feminist Theory
Neil Gaiman’s novel Stardust (1999) and Matthew Vaughn’s 2007 film adaptation of the same name are just two examples of the form’s recent resurgence, particularly in film.
Crone’s Revenge, Femspec Issue 6.2 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 2,220. Language: English. Published: March 27, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
In the science building, Helgart’s twenty-sixth attempt to repair the auras of her expensive chinchillas had failed again. The bright life spikes of healthy aura were fading, and the healer is called upon to use her powers of mind streaming to diagnose and heal.
Derailed But Not Defeated, Femspec v. 8 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 4,450. Language: English. Published: January 14, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Essay » Political, Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies
My worst fears seemed to be realized when, on my first day, my department chair, a Harvard man nearing retirement, greeted me by saying, “I really hate to see you here. Society wastes its investment when it educates women.” Now a dream more than twenty years after I left that position made me realized that I still needed to clear out some of the psychic stuff I’d left behind and move on.
Femspec 16.1 The Great Age Issue Part 3: Introductions and Overview by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 4,560. Language: English. Published: November 13, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Philosophy » Criticism
Includes introduction, table of contents, best of third five years contest, and information about contributors.
Four Book Reviews and Books and Media Received, Femspec Issue 16.1 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 3,280. Language: English. Published: November 20, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Feminism & Feminist Theory
Book reviews of Charlene Spretnak's "The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art: Art History Reconsidered, 1800 to the Present", Carren Strock's "A Writer’s Journey: What to Know Before,During, and After Writing a Book", Harry N. Abrams "Lauren Myracle, Shine", and Isabel Allende's "Ripper".
Gender Issues in The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, Femspec Issue 6.2 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 1,140. Language: English. Published: April 7, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Essay » Literature, Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies
“Hollinger cites several of these works to demonstrate feminist challenges to heterosexual and patriarchal hegemony, feminist techniques of defamiliarization (e.g., re female human nature), and feminist appropriations of standard sf figures, such as aliens and cyborgs, to question traditional notions of dominance and status.
Growing Thick Skin: One Consequence of Discrimination Femspec Double Issue v. 8 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 9,090. Language: English. Published: December 18, 2014 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Essay » Political, Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies
It wasn’t until graduate school that I realized that as a woman my technical aptitude was an issue. I was the first woman in the environmental engineering doctoral program at Michigan Tech University. It was here that I first learned how differently I approached technical problem solving and how that tended to disturb my advisors. Tina Andres is explaining her experience with discrimination.
Historical Documents: Letter of the Twenty Fourth Century, Femspec Issue 1.1 by
Series: Femspec Articles. Price: $15.00 USD. Words: 1,830. Language: English. Published: April 10, 2015 by Femspec Journal. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Nonfiction » History » Oceania
This writer from the 1930s was similar to modern feminists. The story set in the twenty-fourth century includes introspection on prophecies of the past through the mechanism of old books that had been discovered from the turn of the 20th century by the protagonist.