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.
| Other author | Barr, Marleen S. |
| Other author | Sargent, Pamela. |
| Other author | Dann, Jack. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : Lexington Books, [2025] |
| Description | x, 187 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Jewish science fiction and fantasy |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | "Acknowledging the growing cultural popularity of science fiction, this book explores gender through cohesiveness and spotlighted attention to Jewish women's science fiction visions"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024039661 |
| ISBN | 9781666928167 (cloth) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |