From LISTSERV@listserv.uic.edu Fri Jan 26 13:38:22 2001 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:58:50 -0600 From: "L-Soft list server at UIC (1.8d)" To: Laura Quilter Subject: File: "FEMINISTSF LOG0005D" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 22:07:38 +0000 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Angela Barclay Subject: the essentials Comments: To: Feminist Discussion Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi Grete: I'm also a "newbie" to the list and while a long-time devourer of sci fi, I would have to say that the feminist sub-genre is a whole new universe to me too. Some of the fabulous fantastic/feminist works I have read include just about anything I can get my hands on by Sherry S. Tepper; I think _Gate to Women's County_ and _Beauty_ are her most thought-provoking. Last summer I had fun reading Angela Carter's _Nights at the Circus_ and _Heroes and Villians_. I'm not sure if her work would fit with our criteria, but _Heroes and Villains_ was a disturbing postapocalyptic work. In addition to setting up this book discussion listserve, the listowners have created an impressive annotated bibliography which can be accessed from the website where you originally hooked up. Check out the "Recommended Reading List (FSF for beginners)". The books listed there are definately "essentials". This summer I hope to get to that TBR list! Enjoy, Angela -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe FEMINISTSF Contact FEMINISTSF-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 07:33:09 -0700 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Laura Quilter Subject: Re: the essentials In-Reply-To: <20000525040551.YFUS656.priv-edtnes03-hme0.telusplanet.net@[161.184.55.88]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII that's linked from the feministsf web pages at www.wenet.net/~lquilter/femsf/ your list-mistress, laura q On Wed, 24 May 2000, Angela Barclay wrote: > Hi Grete: > I'm also a "newbie" to the list and while a long-time devourer of sci fi, I > would have to say that the feminist sub-genre is a whole new universe to me > too. > > Some of the fabulous fantastic/feminist works I have read include just about > anything I can get my hands on by Sherry S. Tepper; I think _Gate to Women's > County_ and _Beauty_ are her most thought-provoking. > > Last summer I had fun reading Angela Carter's _Nights at the Circus_ and > _Heroes and Villians_. I'm not sure if her work would fit with our > criteria, but _Heroes and Villains_ was a disturbing postapocalyptic work. > > In addition to setting up this book discussion listserve, the listowners > have created an impressive annotated bibliography which can be accessed from > the website where you originally hooked up. Check out the "Recommended > Reading List (FSF for beginners)". The books listed there are definately > "essentials". This summer I hope to get to that TBR list! > > Enjoy, > Angela > > -------------------------------------------------- > This is the FEMINISTSF listserve, intended only for > discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To > unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to > LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: > unsubscribe FEMINISTSF > > Contact FEMINISTSF-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. > Laura Quilter lauraq@exploratorium.edu ph: 415.353.0465 / 415.561.0343 Learning Center Facilities Manager Exploratorium, San Francisco -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe FEMINISTSF Contact FEMINISTSF-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:12:31 EDT Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Juno Gregory Subject: Re: FEMINISTSF Digest - 19 May 2000 to 24 May 2000 (#2000-50) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I wonder how many of the readers here saw the article at Salon.com about the uses fans are making of the ideas in that infamous ANTI-feminist series, "Gor"? In the series, as the blurb for the article says, "men are Men and women are slaves," and these people are not just setting up IRC channels to play at being Goreans, but some of them are taking it into real life. Here's the link/URL for the piece: "Chain Gang" Feminist backlash lives. Judith Greer -------------------------------------------------- This is the FEMINISTSF listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe FEMINISTSF Contact FEMINISTSF-request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU if there are problems.