Free US delivery on orders $35 or over

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.

Table of 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

Product details

Published Dec 15 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 204
ISBN 9781666928167
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Marleen S. Barr

Contributor

Marleen S. Barr

Contributor

Daniel J. Brin

Contributor

David Brin

Contributor

Jennifer Caplan

Contributor

Leigh Gold

Contributor

Lisa Goldstein

Contributor

Elana Gomel

Contributor

Erga Heller

Contributor

Adeena Karasick

Contributor

Pamela Sargent

Contributor

Steven Shaviro

Steve Shaviro is Professor Emeritus of English at…

Contributor

Lance Strate

Afterword

Jack Dann

Related Titles

Environment: Staging