Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females

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Edited by Marleen S. Barr - Afterword by Jack Dann - Contributions by Marleen S. Barr; Daniel J. Brin; David Brin; Jennifer Caplan; Leigh Gold; Lisa Goldstein; Elana Gomel; Danielle Gurevitch; Lori Harrison-Kahan; Elyce Rae Helford; Erga Heller; Adeena Ka

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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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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

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