Full Description
Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females: Gender, Temporality—and Yentas, the fourth volume in Marleen S. Barr's Future Females critical feminist science fiction anthology series, is the first essay collection devoted to Jewish women science fiction writers. The anthology forges new alliances across disciplinary boundaries—feminist theory, science fiction, and Jewish Studies—by forming a scholarly force, consisting of established critical voices and cutting-edge, fresh perspectives. Acknowledging the growing cultural popularity of science fiction, Barr's goal is to showcase new vistas for exploring gender through Jewish women's science fiction visions. It is time for Jewish women science fiction writers to receive the focused critical examination they deserve.
Contents
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
