1st Edition
Where No Man has Gone Before Essays on Women and Science Fiction
Part 1: Writing through the Century: Individual Authors 1. The Loss of the Feminine Principle in Charlotte Haldane’s Man’s World and Katherine Burdekin’s Swastika Night Elizabeth Russell 2. ‘Shambleau...and Others’: The Role of the Female in the Fiction of C. L. Moore Sarah Gamble 3. Remaking the Old World: Ursula Le Guin and the American Tradition Susan Bassnett 4. Doris Lessing and the Politics of Violence Moira Monteith Part 2: Aliens and Others: A Contemporary Perspective 5. Mary and the Monster: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Maureen Duffy’s Gor Saga Jenny Newman 6. Pets and Monsters: Metamorphoses in Recent Science Fiction Lisa Tuttle 7. Between the Boys and their Toys: The Science Fiction Film Susan Thomas 8. Your Word is My Command: The Structure of Language and Power in Women’s Science Fiction Lucie Armitt 9. ‘I’m not in the Business: I am the Business’: Women at Work in Hollywood Science Fiction Erica Sheen Part 3: Readers and Writers: SF as Genre Fiction 10. Writing Science Fiction for the Teenage Reader Gwyneth Jones 11. Sex, Sub-atomic Particles and Sociology Sarah Lefanu 12. Maeve and Guinevere: Women’s Fantasy Writing in the Science Fiction Marketplace Nickianne Moody 13. ‘Goodbye to all That...’ Josephine Saxton
Biography
Lucie Armitt is Professor in English Literature at the University of Salford. Her research interests are contemporary women's fiction, the Gothic, the fantastic in literature and illustration and gender theory.
