From LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Sat Sep 11 14:26:59 1999 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:49:56 -0500 From: "L-Soft list server at University of Illinois at Chicago (1.8c)" To: Laura Quilter Subject: File: "FEMINISTSF-LIT LOG9906E" ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:55:01 -0700 Reply-To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC Sender: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC From: Jennifer Krauel Subject: BDG: Last day for nominations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This is a reminder that today is the last day to send nominations for upcoming discussions. You can see a list of nominations so far at: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Comet/1304/bdg_nom_0699.htm Voting on the September-December discussion books starts tomorrow, June 30 and concludes Tuesday July 6. Jennifer ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:59:12 -0700 Reply-To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC Sender: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC From: Jennifer Krauel Subject: BDG voting begins Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" It's time to cast your votes for the books we will discuss from September through December. Take a look at the nominations on: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Comet/1304/bdg_nom_0699.htm Cast your ballot by sending your four favorites in an e-mail to Terri at terriergraphics@cybertours.com before the end of the day next Tuesday July 6. Please send them to Terri rather than to the whole list! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:42:45 -0700 Reply-To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC Sender: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC From: Anitra Freeman Subject: Intro: Anitra MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello. It's the practice on most lists I've been on for new members to send a short introduction to the list, so that you have some idea of "who is this talking?" My name is Anitra Freeman. I'm currently a freelance writer and activist in Seattle Washington, and I Am A Bookaholic. Rather than go on and on, as I am quite capable of doing, I'll say "my life is an open website" -- My Bookaholics page: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/8516/ My political views: http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/politics.html My "meta" page: http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/ A recent challenge on one of the newsgroups I subscribe to spurred me to compile a page of excellent female (not necessarily feminist) fantasy and sf authors: http://members.tripod.com/AmusedMuse/sff-fem.html -- I found this list through one of the reference links I used in compiling that page. I am also subscribed to a femme-mystery list, and had been looking for a similar focus-list for sf/fantasy. I have a research question I hope some of you may help me out on. Someone on another list asked for re-workings of the Genesis story in feminist sf. I know I've seen retellings of Genesis in sf short-stories, but I recall author/title information. Does anyone here recall some? I noticed one of the first books on the Book Discussion list was Ammonite, by Nicola Griffith, but the link to the discussion compilation was broken. I picked up the book after seeing it mentioned there, and I'm about half through it now. Any chance of retrieving the compiled list discussion? I look forward to hearing from all of you! -- Write On! / Anitra L. Freeman / "Never doubt that a small group of imperfect people can improve the world--indeed they are the only ones who ever have." Not Margaret Mead ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:16:33 EDT Reply-To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC Sender: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC From: "B. Garrahy" Subject: Re: Intro: Anitra MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anitra! What a small world this is! I have been lurking around here (and this list's precursor) for quite some time now. It is nice to see a familiar face! You will love it here. I do. :-) Bridgett ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:27:40 -0400 Reply-To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC Sender: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC From: "Janice E. Dawley" Subject: Re: Intro: Anitra In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 05:42 PM 6/30/99 -0700, Anitra Freeman wrote: >Hello. It's the practice on most lists I've been on for new members to >send a short introduction to the list, so that you have some idea of >"who is this talking?" My name is Anitra Freeman. Welcome, Anitra! >I noticed one of the first books on the Book Discussion list was >Ammonite, by Nicola Griffith, but the link to the discussion compilation >was broken. I picked up the book after seeing it mentioned there, and >I'm about half through it now. Any chance of retrieving the compiled >list discussion? The BDG web page that is available on the FSFFU site is out of date and broken, as you saw. The real page, complete with all archives, is now at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Comet/1304/ ----- Janice E. Dawley.....Burlington, VT http://homepages.together.net/~jdawley/ Listening to: The *Velvet Goldmine* Soundtrack "...the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected; the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other." Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:25:09 -0700 Reply-To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC Sender: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC From: Dave Samuelson Subject: Re: Intro: Anitra MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------63C44A4F1C724463A3E16C58" --------------63C44A4F1C724463A3E16C58 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit One delicious parody (alternative?) is Raven's creation story from the Western Cravasses in Samuel R. Delany's Tales of Neveryon. Delany is a "card-carrying" feminist. Anitra Freeman wrote: > I have a research question I hope some of you may help me out on. > Someone on another list asked for re-workings of the Genesis story in > feminist sf. I know I've seen retellings of Genesis in sf > short-stories, but I recall author/title information. Does anyone here > recall some? > --------------63C44A4F1C724463A3E16C58 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit One delicious parody (alternative?) is Raven's creation story from the Western Cravasses in Samuel R. Delany's Tales of Neveryon.  Delany is a "card-carrying" feminist.

Anitra Freeman wrote:

I have a research question I hope some of you may help me out on.
Someone on another list asked for re-workings of the Genesis story in
feminist sf.  I know I've seen retellings of Genesis in sf
short-stories, but I recall author/title information.  Does anyone here
recall some?
 
--------------63C44A4F1C724463A3E16C58-- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:36:31 -0700 Reply-To: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC Sender: Feminist SF/Fantasy and Utopia Literature ON TOPIC From: Steve Swartz Subject: Re: Intro: Anitra In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed >I have a research question I hope some of you may help me out on. >Someone on another list asked for re-workings of the Genesis story in >feminist sf. I know I've seen retellings of Genesis in sf >short-stories, but I recall author/title information. Does anyone here >recall some? Geoff Ryman's first novel, The Warrior Who Carried Life, contains a reworking of the Genesis story in which the snake is actually Adam's penis. If I remember correctly, we run into Adam and Eve in hell. It's been a while. But it's a great first novel, I recommend it.