At 23:06 4/10/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, lissa bloomer wrote:
>
>> dear all:
>>
>> i'm looking for two books. two books that i've never read.
>>
>> i'm teaching a class where i'd like to use a comparable book to
>> _Frankenstein_ ... i'd like it to be both sci-fi and fem AND not
>> extraordinarily difficult (like, say, Le Guin's _Dispossessed_)(*gasp*)...
>>
>>
>> my theme (or, as we silly english teachers like to call it, "body of
>> discourse") is going to be called something along the lines of "Beauty and
>> the Beast" -- i think i'm going to use _Beowulf_ together with _Grendel_
>> ...
>>
>> the second book i'm looking for is for a class on family... i'd like to,
>> again, use a sci-fi fem book that i haven't read before: one that has an
>> unusual family... i may be using _Fried Green Tomatoes_ and _Momaday_ and
>> _I am One of You Forever_
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> -lissa bloomer
>
>
>How about Theodore Roszak's Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein, which won
>the Tiptree last year, or would that one be too tough? Alternately, how
>about Marge Piercy's He, She, and It, which has an obvious Frankenstein
>parallel? Amy Thomson's Virtual Girl might also work, though it probably
>is out of print. Another possibility is Shariann Lewitt's Memento Mori,
>which just came out in trade paperback.
>
>For the family book, I'm very fond of the family in Slonczewski's
>Daughter of Elysium, although that's probably too difficult AND out of
>print. One very good family sf novel that just came out in trade
>paperback is Stephanie Smith's Other Nature. Most of the feminist f & sf
>books that I can think of that concentrate on families, specifically
>concentrate on bad families--child abuse issues and such--like Susan
>Palwick's Flying in Place.
>
>Mike Levy
>
Another book that concentrates on families (bad, that is) --
_The Beginning Place_ by Ursula K. LeGuin. Very Jungian, but
not at all difficult reading -- and it's IN PRINT!
Martha Bartter
Truman State University
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