Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females - Gender, Temporalityand Yentas

Acknowledging the growing cultural popularity of science fiction, this book explores gender through cohesiveness and spotlighted attention to Jewish women's science fiction visions.

List 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

About the author

Marleen S. Barr taught English at The City University of New York.

Product details

• Authors: Marleen S. Barr
• Assisted by: Barr Marleen S. (Editor), Marleen S Barr (Editor), Pamela Sargent (Foreword), Dann Jack (Afterword), Jack Dann (Afterword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666928167
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-816-7
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Jewish Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities