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Marleen S Barr
About the author Marleen S. Barr is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction and teaches English at the City University of New York. She has won the…
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Oy Pioneer! follows feminist Jewish wit and professor Sondra Lear as she makes her inimitable way through the world of learning. As if Mel Brooks and Erica Jong had joined…
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Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary…
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Writers speculate on the future and the role of science fiction.
Dr. Marleen S. Barr, a feminist science fiction scholar who received the Science Fiction Research Association Award for Lifetime Contributions to Science Fiction Scholarship, counters Trump administration political abomination and…
A hilarious and satirical look at the encounters of Donald J. Trump with a feminist college professor, ghosts of feminists past, leaders of feminist planets and his own fear of…
Acknowledging the growing cultural popularity of science fiction, this book explores gender through cohesiveness and spotlighted attention to Jewish women's science fiction visions.
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A multinational perspective runs through this volume, focusing on the latest dynamic trends in feminist science fiction. These include such issues as race, gender, cyberfeminism, the media, and new writers…
Elyce Rae Helford
This volume examines women on American television in the nineties in an attempt to uncover the cultural obsession with tough, sexy heroines in mythical pasts, the girl power present, and…
