FSF Required Texts

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Required Texts
Feminist Science Fiction (ZSRS40501)
Spring 2004 -- Kay Fowler

Updated 1/31/04

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Note: I use SF as short hand here for Science Fiction or Speculative Fiction
COLLECTIONS:
Kessler: Carol Farley Kessler, ed. Daring to Dream: Utopian Fiction by United States Women Before 1950. 2nd ed. Syracuse University Press, 1995. Bookstore
    Blake:   Lillie Devereux Umsted Blake "A Divided Republic" (1885) in Kessler,   94-104
    Cooley: Winifred Harper Cooley: A Dream of the 21st Century" (1902) in Kessler, 125-130
    Cridge: Annie D. Cridge "Man's Rights or How Would You Like It?" (1870) in Kessler, 3-60
    Jones: Lillian B. Jones. from Five Generations Hence.(1906)175-188
Sargent: Pamela Sargent, ed. Women of Wonder the Classic YearsHarcourt Brace, 1995. Bookstore
       Brackett: Leigh Brackett, "The Woman from Altair" (1951) 102-129;
       Bradley: Marion Zimmer Bradley. "Death Between the Stars" (1956) 152-167;
       McCaffrey.   Anne McCaffrey. "The Ship Who Sang" (1961) 167-185
       McIntyre: Vondra McIntyre. "Of Mist, Grass, and Sand." (1973) 288-307;
       Merril:      Judith Merril "That Only a Mother." (1948) 65-73;
        Moore: C. L. Moore. "No Woman Born" (1944) 21-64;
       Russ:    Joanna Russ. "Nobody's Home" (1972) 249-262;
       Tiptree: James K. Tiptree, Jr. "The Women Men Don't See," (1973) 308-334;
       Vinge:        Joan Vinge. "View from a Height" (1979) 397-410
        Zoline: Pamela Zoline. "The Heat Death of the Universe" (1967) 205-217;

INDIVIDUAL TEXTS:
Asaro: Catharine Asaro. "Ave de Paso" (2000) in Redshift, ed. Al Sarrentonio, 2002, 471-485. ON RESERVE
Butler1: Octavia Butler. Kindred(1979). Bookstore
Butler2: Octavia Butler. "Speech Sounds" in Bloodchild. 1995 pp. 87-110. ON RESERVE as Fowler P-23
Burdekin: Katharine Burdekin. The End of This Day's Business (1930s, 1989) Bookstore
Cavendish: Margaret Cavendish, from A Description of ...Blazing World(1666) Handout
Due: Tannarive Due. "Patient Zero" (2000) in Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Edition, ed. Gardner Dozois, 2001, 491-503. ON RESERVE
Emswhiller: Carol Emshwiller. "Idol's Eye" (1958) in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow, ed. Janice Frank, Jean Stenso, Forrest Ackerman, 1004, 147-150. Handout
Esquivel: Laura Esquivel. Law of Love (1996); Bookstore
Gilman: Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland (1915); Bookstore
Griffith: Mary Griffith, Three Hundred Years Hence (1836) extracts, 1, 2, and 3 from Web.
Griffith: Nicola Griffith. Slow River (1995) . Bookstore
Harris: Clare Winger Harris, "The Fifth Dimension" (1928) from Away from the Here and Now (1947) Handout
Hoffman: Nina Kiriki Hoffman. "Between Disappearances" (2000) in Redshift, ed. Al Sarentino, 2002, 345-350. ON RESERVE
Hopkinson Nalo Hopkinson. "The Habit of Waste" (1999)" in Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism. Ed. Helen Merrick and Tess Williams. University of Western Australia, 1999, 259-276. ON RESERVE
Hossein: Rakeya Sakawat Hossein. Sultana's Dream (1905) from Sultana's Dream &Sel.from the Secluded Ones. Feminist Press. 1990. ON RESERVE
Lane: Mary Bradley Lane. Mizora: A Prophecy (1996); Bookstore
LeFanu 1: Sarah LeFanu: "Authority & Sentiment: Is There a Women's SF?" In the Chinks of the World's Machine. 86-93. Handout
LeGuin 1: Ursula K. LeGuin "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" in Women of Vision, ed. Denise Dupont, 1-9 Handout
LeGuin 2: Ursula K. LeGuin. The Telling (2000). Bookstore
Loudon/Rauch: Jane Loudon, The Mummy: A Tale of the 22nd C. (1827) ed. A. Rauch
Rauch: Introduction xxvii-xxix and Loudon: Chap. 1: 3-8. Handout
Mitchison: Naomi Mitchison. Solution Three (1975). Bookstore
Moore-Bentley: Mary Ann Moore-Bentley [Mrs. H. H. Ling] "A Woman of Earth" from A Woman of Mars, in Australian Science Fiction, ed. Van Ikin, 1982. xiv-xv; and 86-91. Handout
Norton: Andre Norton. "All Cats Are Gray" (1953) in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow, ed. Janice Frank, Jean Stenso, Forrest Ackerman, 1004, 121-125. Handout
Park: Severna Park. "The Cure for Everything" (2000) in Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Edition, ed. Gardner Dozois, 2001, 491-503. ON RESERVE
Perri: Leslie Perri. "Space Episode" (1941) in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow, ed. Janice Frank, Jean Stenso, Forrest Ackerman, 1004, 63-67. Handout
Piercy: Marge Piercy:Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) Bookstore
Sargent2: Pamela Sargent. "Fears" (1972) in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow, ed. Janice Frank, Jean Stenso, Forrest Ackerman, 1004, 281-290. Handout
Sherman: Charlotte Watson Sherman. "Killing Color" (1989) in Memories and Visions, ed. Susannah Sturgis, (1989). 58-71. ON RESERVE
Shizegawa: Ruth Shizegawa. "Hills of Blue, an Orange Moon" (1996) in The Women Who Walk Through Fire, ed. Suzannah Sturgis, 1996, 256-267. ON RESERVE
Stevens: Francis Stevens. "Friend Island" (1918) in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow, ed. Janice Frank, Jean Stenso, Forrest Ackerman, 1004, 5-13. HandoutStone:Leslie Stone. "Conquest of Gola" (Wonder Stories, 1931); Handout
Tepper: Sherri Tepper. The Gate to Women's Country (1988) . Bookstore
Walker: Sage Walker. "Hunting Mother" (1999) in Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Edition, ed. Gardner Dozois, 2000, 188-199. ON RESERVE
Willis: Connie Willis. "Even the Queen" (1993) in New Hugo Winners, Vol. IV, ed. Gregory Benford, 1997, 165-188. ON RESERVE