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Jewish women science fiction writers create future females : gender, temporality--and yentas / edited by Marleen S. Barr ; preface by Pamela Sargent ; afterword by Jack Dann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Jewish science fiction and fantasy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, American--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- Science fiction, American.
- Science fiction, American--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Jewish women authors--United States.
- Jewish women authors.
- Jews in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 187 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2025]
- 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
- Alien encounters (of the Jewish kind) / Elana Gomel
- Miriam Michelson's The superwoman and the future of feminist recovery / Lori Harrison-Kahan
- Seeing Judith Merril's personal and professional maternal I in "That only a mother" : an intuitive close encounter / Leigh Gold
- On (not) saving the world : Joanna Russ's Extra (ordinary) people / Steven Shaviro
- Traumatic timescapes : Holocaust memory in Jane Yolen's The Devil's arithmetic and Nava Semel's And the rat laughed / Elyce Rae Helford
- Esther Friesner's funny, serious, and seriously funny speculative fiction / Jennifer Caplan
- Gendered memory/Jewish biography : reading Elana Gomel's "Sea of salt" / Danielle Gurevitch
- Imagining a new Ashkenazi motherland : alternate history in Simone Zelitch's Judenstaat / Lance Strate
- Motherhood, survival, and post-humanism in Keren Landsman's "Alone, in the dark," "Burn Alexandra," and The heart of the circle / Erga Heller
- Naomi Alderman's complaint : The power addresses feminist science fiction's new human female superheroes and celebrates women's real bodies / Marleen S. Barr
- Space time travel : the r/evolutionary Kabbalistics of Natasha Lyonne's Russian doll / Adeena Karasick
- Nursing on the teat of Godzilla : David Brin and Daniel Brin reminisce with their childhood friend Lisa Goldstein / Daniel Brin, David Brin, and Lisa Goldstein
- Afterword Finally! / Jack Dann.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 07, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Jewish women science fiction writers create future females
- ISBN:
- 9781666928174
- 1666928178
- Publisher Number:
- 40032683368
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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