Subject: File: "FEMINISTSF LOG0203A" ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:11:12 -0800 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Jo Ann Rangel Subject: Fw: Atwood's essays on writing Comments: To: feministsf@uic.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > My latest Amazon.com email from the writer section of their site sent me an > intriguing blurb about Margaret Atwood's new book of essays about writing: > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521662605/ref%3Dmk%5Fdel%5F264458%5F > 46/102-1623105-6010504 > > Am going to see if my library ordered a copy, I first fell in love with her > poems before I read her books or short stories. It's been a dry season of > late looking at writing related essays in book form. > > Jo Ann > -------------------------------------------------- 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@UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:56:14 -0500 Reply-To: judithberman@earthlink.net Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Judith Berman Subject: Women in SF Comments: To: feministsf@uic.edu, feministsf-lit@uic.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > This from Camille Bacon-Smith, a writer and SF scholar: > > March is Women's History Month in Australia, and I'll be teaching an online > seminar in women and sf/fantasy in a big government-sponsored teach-athon > there (via internet, from my study here in Philly) > > I thought it would be great to offer, in the resource section, some brief > quotes from science fiction and fantasy authors about women characters or > women writers (or being a woman writer from those who are). > > Just a few sentences. We don't need a whole essay, but I'd like to have as > wide a variety of comments as possible to sort of propel conversation. If > you are interested in participating with a comment, you can post it here or > at dm.members.camille, or send it to me via email to camille@voicenet.com. > > If we wind up having conversation about the subject, I'd also like > permission to post that conversation to the resources section as well, to > give the students the benefit of insights. > > since I'd like as many comments as possible, please spread this message > around. -------------------------------------------------- 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@UIC.EDU if there are problems.