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Title

Jewish women science fiction writers create future females

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  • Monograph

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Subject

  • Jews in literature (LCSH)
  • Jewish women authors--United States (LCSH)
  • Science fiction, American--Jewish authors--History and criticism (LCSH)
  • Science fiction, American--Women authors--History and criticism (LCSH)

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Summary

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

Table of Contents

Introduction: The invisible Jewish woman or Closed legs Finkelstein and Princess Vespa are fake Jews / Marleen S. Barr -- Alien encounters (of the Jewish kind) / Elana Gomel -- Miriam Michelson's The superwoman and the future of feminist recovery / Lori Harrison-Kahan -- Seeing Judith Merril's personal and professional maternal I in "That only a mother" : an intuitive close encounter / Leigh Gold -- On (not) saving the world : Joanna Russ's Extra (ordinary) people / Steven Shaviro -- Traumatic timescapes : Holocaust memory in Jane Yolen's The Devil's arithmetic and Nava Semel's And the rat laughed / Elyce Rae Helford -- Esther Friesner's funny, serious, and seriously funny speculative fiction / Jennifer Caplan -- Gendered memory/Jewish biography : reading Elana Gomel's "Sea of salt" / Danielle Gurevitch -- Imagining a new Ashkenazi motherland : alternate history in Simone Zelitch's Judenstaat / Lance Strate -- Motherhood, survival, and post-humanism in Keren Landsman's "Alone, in the dark," "Burn Alexandra," and The heart of the circle / Erga Heller -- Naomi Alderman's complaint : The power addresses feminist science fiction's new human female superheroes and celebrates women's real bodies / Marleen S. Barr -- Space time travel : the r/evolutionary Kabbalistics of Natasha Lyonne's Russian doll / Adeena Karasick -- Nursing on the teat of Godzilla : David Brin and Daniel Brin reminisce with their childhood friend Lisa Goldstein / Daniel Brin, David Brin, and Lisa Goldstein -- Afterword Finally! / Jack Dann.

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:15:25.684057+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23891349

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
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  • Description language: eng
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