Jerry, I'm forwarding your question to some others - maybe they have some
ideas. I'll think about it, too, and get back to you.
Laura M. Quilter / lauramd@uic.edu
Electronic Services Librarian
University of Illinois at Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/~lauramd/
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be
in your revolution." -- Emma Goldman
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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:13:57 -0600
From: "UIC Web Form Mailerweb_mailer"@uic.edu
To: femsfweb@uic.edu
Cc: lauramd@uic.edu
Subject: femsf feedback
Name: Jerry Savage
Email: gjsavag@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
I am a: sf fan\0researcher\0feminist
I found this page by looking for: feminist science fiction
My comment concerns: question
OK to post on bulletin board: bulletin board OK
Please respond sometime soon, please
My comments are: I'm working with the Feminist Issues Committee in the
English Department, developing new graduate-level course proposals in
feminist and gender topics. My specialty is technical communication, and
I started out developing a Gender and Technology syllabus. I decided to
include a unit on feminist science fiction in this course, and that led me
to your site. What I want to emphasize in this unit is the technology
aspect. Hence, I don't think I want to get into utopias and fantasy
unless there is a fairly clear technology aspect to those stories. I've
been a casual reader of SF for many years, but I'm not nearly
knowledgeable enough to know which writers would be most important. At
this point I do think Slonczewski will be high on the list. Can you
recommend other titles? My final list can only include about five or six
books because the majority of the course will deal with nonfiction. I can
see this unit ultimately becoming a course in itself. We have already
begun discussing that possibility, although I'm not so sure I would be the
best one to teach it. Thanks for any help you can give. Thanks also for
a great website.
Jerry Savage
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