Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Abstract

Woman: The Other Alien in Alien - Rebecca Bell-Metereau Responsibilities and Temptations of Women Science Fiction Writers - Marion Zimmer Bradley Women and Technology in Science Fiction: An Uneasy Alliance - Valerie Broege Earth Mothers or Male Memories: Wilhelm, Lem, and Future Women - Patrice Caldwell The Classical Humanism of Philip K. Dick - Peder Christiansen Types of Feminist Fantasy and Science Fiction - Kathleen Cioffi Orders of Chaos: The Science Fiction of Joanna Russ - Samuel R. Delany Christa Reinig's Emasculation: Male Chauvinism as Science Fiction - Esther N Elstun A Good Game to Play: Brian Aldiss and the Mother of Science Fiction - David Leon Higdon Wife/ Mother, Sorceress/ Keeper, Amazon/ Renunciate: Status Ambivalence and Conflicting Roles on the Planet Darkover - Barbara Hornum The Evolving Consciousness of Feminine Identity in Doris Lessing's The Memoirs of a Survivor and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - Sandra Lott Women of Dune: Frank Herbert as Social Reactionary? - Miriam Youngerman Miller The Brass Brassiere: Sexual Dimorphism in Science Fiction Illustration - Marilyn R. Mumford Worlds of Words and Swords: Suzette Haden Elgin and Joanna Russ at Work - Thelma J. Shinn Great Country for Men and Dogs, but Tough on Women and Mules: Sex and Status in Recent Science Fiction Utopias - Lynn F. Williams Gender Roles in the Darkover Novels of Marion Zimmer Bradley - Diane S. Wood