Subject: File: "FEMINISTSF LOG0203C" ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:51:38 -0800 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Laura Quilter Subject: theses & dissertations Comments: To: feministsf-lit@uic.edu, feministsf@uic.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII hi. it seems like a lot of list members have written papers, theses, dissertations, on various aspects of feminist sf. i would love to make some of this research that people have already done available to others. we'd put it on the www.feministsf.org website, fully attributed, and linked to any other website or email address that people have. alternatively, if you have your material already posted, or don't want it posted but would be willing to send copies of it on request, i'd love to get the citations (your name, title, why you wrote it (dissertation, class paper), date, brief synopsis, works & authors cited). finally even if you don't want to share your work, but it is a dissertation or a thesis, *please* send me the citation (and the above information). i'll add it to the criticism database. thanks a lot. laura quilter feministsf webmaster / listmistress -------------------------------------------------- This is the feministsf listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. 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Comments: To: feministsf@uic.edu, feministsf-lit@uic.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII hi, this is the web/list mistress speaking. i've got complete sets of the list archives. i want to do several things with them: (1) go through the large archive files and break them down into weekly archives, and go through the files and clean them up -- delete attachments, organize line length, make some URLs hyperlinks (2) most fun of all, go through the indexes and pull out all the messages on particular topics. authors, books, generic topics (such as, "Black Women," "women and war," "sexism in the Hugos" etc.). Probably, anyone could do this on topics of their choice. But you would need to look at *all* the archives for *both* lists -- that's feministsf since March 1997, and feministsf-lit since April 1999. So you would need a mail program that can read *.mbx files, and you would need to be pretty comfortable with ftp. If you're interested, please send me an email. If you're not interested in working, but have a topic that you would love to have indexed, send me an email about that, too. Laura Quilter / lquilter@feministsf.org -------------------------------------------------- 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, 18 Mar 2002 11:33:04 +0100 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Peter Seyferth Subject: Re: want to play with list archives ? Comments: To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi Laura, At the moment I am working on a dissertation about utopia in U.K. Le Guins science fiction. The work is in progress, but by now I have nothing ready to share. As soon as there are results I will share them with you. After translating them into English, of course. I have not enough time to help you with the archive, but topics like "utopia" or "anarchism" in the index would be very helpful for my research work. -- Peter Am 17.03.2002 0:20 Uhr schrieb "lquilter" unter : > hi, this is the web/list mistress speaking. > > i've got complete sets of the list archives. i want to do several things > with them: > > (1) go through the large archive files and break them down into > weekly archives, and go through the files and clean them up -- > delete attachments, > organize line length, > make some URLs hyperlinks > > (2) most fun of all, go through the indexes and pull out all the > messages on particular topics. authors, books, generic topics (such as, > "Black Women," "women and war," "sexism in the Hugos" etc.). > Probably, anyone could do this on topics of their > choice. But you would need to look at *all* the archives for *both* lists > -- that's feministsf since March 1997, and feministsf-lit since April > 1999. > So you would need a mail program that can read *.mbx > files, and you would need to be pretty comfortable with ftp. > > If you're interested, please send me an email. If you're not interested > in working, but have a topic that you would love to have indexed, send me > an email about that, too. > > Laura Quilter / lquilter@feministsf.org > > -------------------------------------------------- > 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. -------------------------------------------------- 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, 18 Mar 2002 17:03:18 -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: Saudi Girls deaths articles Comments: To: feministsf@uic.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Was listening to NPR and heard about this school fire that resulted in 14 deaths of young girls but what is causing a lot of debate in Saudi Arabia is that the religious police stopped people from attempting to recue the girls who were trapped because they were not properly covered and thus could not be seen by any males other than their fathers and brothers...even though these girls male relatives offered to run in and help with the rescue the police stopped them. So, in my ever growing interest in such religious matters I looked up the links about this story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1874000/1874471.st m http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/03/saudischool.htm -------------------------------------------------- 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, 18 Mar 2002 22:19:24 EST Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Christine Ethier Subject: Re: Saudi Girls deaths articles Comments: To: feministsf@uic.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/18/2002 8:03:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, silkstarlight@SPRINTMAIL.COM writes: << Was listening to NPR and heard about this school fire that resulted in 14 deaths of young girls but what is causing a lot of debate in Saudi Arabia is that the religious police stopped people from attempting to recue the girls >> It even made my usually bad local paper. Of course, it was only a paragraph but it still made it. -------------------------------------------------- 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, 18 Mar 2002 22:11:18 -0600 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: "Laura J. Mixon" Subject: Re: Saudi Girls deaths articles Comments: To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" In-Reply-To: <00f801c1cee1$dc2d3c00$0b83b2d1@SilkStarlight> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit How horrible. -------------------------------------------------- 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: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 02:00:51 EST Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Joy Martin Subject: Re: Saudi Girls deaths articles Comments: To: feministsf@uic.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/18/02 9:19:54 PM Central Standard Time, EthierCN@AOL.COM writes: << << Was listening to NPR and heard about this school fire that resulted in 14 deaths of young girls but what is causing a lot of debate in Saudi Arabia is that the religious police stopped people from attempting to recue the girls >> It even made my usually bad local paper. Of course, it was only a paragraph but it still made it. >> It got several paragraphs in my St.Louis paper. Apparently there's some dispute about whether they stopped the firefighters or not (the religious police are denying it, which I doubt most people accept), but the Saudi government is vowing to discipline the police if they did, so apparently it's a considerable brouhaha in Saudi, besides making the papers elsewhere. Joy Martin "Absolute attention is prayer" -Simone Weil -------------------------------------------------- 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: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:25:21 -0800 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: Camille Bacon-Smith's Philadelphia Fantastic: Michael Swanwick Comments: To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Philadelphia Fantastic authors and editors invite you to join us at our new venue, BARNES AND NOBLE BOOKSELLERS , 1805 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Meet world-famous World multiple award winning author Michael Swanwick on Friday, March 22nd, at 7:30 pm. One of Philadelphia's most respected authors of speculative fiction, Michael Swanwick has received the Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards for his novels and shorter fiction, which have been translated for audiences all over the world. Take advantage of this opportunity to hear Michael Swanwick read from his great new novel, BONES OF THE EARTH. Join in the conversation as Swanwick tells us what he's working on next, and get your own personal autographed copy of BONES OF THE EARTH. Philadelphia Fantastic presents a series of readings and informal discussions by and with local writers and editors of speculative fiction on the fourth Friday of the month. Our new location is BARNES AND NOBLE BOOKSELLERS , 1805 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the time is 7:30 pm. Michael Swanwick promises thought-provoking science fiction--with dinosaurs--at its best. That's Barnes and Noble, our new location, Friday, March 22nd, at 7:30pm The readings are free: post-reading snack-hunt with the author is pay as you go. Philadelphia Fantastic For further information about the Philadelphia Fantastic reading series, contact Camille Bacon-Smith: camille@voicenet.com and check out our website at http://www.voicenet.com/~camille/phillysf.html for news of upcoming events. -------------------------------------------------- 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: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:20:45 -0600 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Todd Mason Subject: R. A. Lafferty has died. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" "Eurema's Dam" is one of his lesser works; at his best, he was one of the best short-story writers of the last century, and an ambitious novelist. Began his literary career as much in the little magazines, writing mostly tall tales and fantasies for the likes of NEW MEXICO QUARTERLY, as in the sf and fantasy magazines. Famously noted that his writing helped take up his post-retirement time that might otherwise be devoted to alcoholic libations. Has been ill for some time, but left an impressive legacy (some back in print from small presses, not a little considered too idiosyncratic by large commercial publishers and largely published by the likes of Chris Drumm Books in pamphlet form or the folded Broken Mirrors Press). A great loss. I'll probably always remember his story in Ramsey Campbell's anthology THE FAR REACHES OF FEAR (aka SUPERHORROR), "Fog in My Throat"...I hope Lafferty had the gentler sort of death. TM -----Original Message----- From: johnfboston Forwarded by Joyce Scrivner: (From Plokta News Network) Title: RIP R.A. Lafferty (General) Date: Wednesday March 20 2002 @ 08:21AM GMT Author: Alison Scott Steven Silver, writing in rec.arts.sf.fandom, reports that SFWA has announced that RA Lafferty has died. Lafferty was a master of the SF short story and won the Hugo for Short Story in 1973 for "Eurema's Dam". His stories have tended to be overlooked in recent years; a great shame. If you haven't read any Lafferty, I recommend you try some. -------------------------------------------------- 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: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:28:13 -0500 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Frances Subject: Re: R. A. Lafferty has died. Comments: To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Did he write "Space Chantey"? Yes, I loved some of his earlier work, but kind of lost track of him, though I still have some of the books. Frances -------------------------------------------------- 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: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 12:50:12 -0800 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Pamela Rush Subject: Re: R. A. Lafferty has died. Comments: To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" In-Reply-To: <025201c1d04d$ecbaaa40$744679a5@hpackard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Frances wrote: > Did he write "Space Chantey"? Yes, I think. > > Yes, I loved some of his earlier work, but kind of > lost track of him, though > I still have some of the books. Mainly a comic/parody SF writer, wasn't he? I remember short stories more than novels --not that he didn't write them, but that I don't remember reading any of the novels. His stories about an inept/bizarre computer named Epit (or something like that) always reminded me of sort of a cross between Stanislas Lem's Cyberiad and ROn Goulart. Some of his ss crossed SF and mystery the way Goulart often did, too. On the whole though, I'd have to say I'm not very familiar with his works. Pam ===== The antiques appraisal show is coming to town -- but they're not going to get me without a fight! --Crabby Road __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ -------------------------------------------------- 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: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:25:31 -0600 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: "Michael J. Lowrey" Organization: The Working Class Subject: Re: R. A. Lafferty has died. Comments: To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Pamela Rush wrote: > > Mainly a comic/parody SF writer, wasn't he? I > remember short stories more than novels --not that he > didn't write them, but that I don't remember reading > any of the novels. His stories about an inept/bizarre > computer named Epit (or something like that) always > reminded me of sort of a cross between Stanislas Lem's > Cyberiad and ROn Goulart. Some of his ss crossed SF > and mystery the way Goulart often did, too. > > On the whole though, I'd have to say I'm not very > familiar with his works. No offense intended, but: oy! No, you certainly are not. He was an intensely metaphysical writer. Working from a basis in an intensely-felt Catholicism, but affected by many years banging about in some rather rough ways of life, he was "humorous" only in the sense that James Joyce was occasionally humorous. I especially recommend his novels PAST MASTER, FOURTH MANSIONS and ARRIVE AT EASTERWINE; and the anthologies NINE HUNDRED GRANDMOTHERS and DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE SOMETHING FURTHER TO ADD? When you start listing short stories, the list seems almost infinite... The Six Fingers of Time (1960), What's the Name of That Town? (1964), Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1966), Primary Education of the Camiroi (1966), Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne (1966), Land of the Great Horses (1967), Continued on Next Rock (1970), Entire and Perfect Chrysolite (1970), And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire... (1972), Eurema's Dam (1972), The Story of Little Briar-Rose: A Scholarly Study (1991), to name a few. I mourn his passing; yet, as a Christian, I hope eventually to see him once again in the Ultimate Con Suite, still looking like he should be propping up a lightpole on Bourbon Street.... -- Michael J. Lowrey Sunrise Book Reviews -------------------------------------------------- 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: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:47:03 -0600 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Marsha Valance Subject: Re: R. A. Lafferty has died. Comments: To: feministsf@UIC.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit His command of language was admirable--his historical novels--especially OKLA HANNALI and THE FLAME IS GREEN--were larger-than-life epics. And if I'm not mistaken, PAST MASTER won [or was nominated for] several awards. Friends who are Native American says that no one has better captured Native American humor than Lafferty did in OKLA HANNALI, his humorous novel about the Cherokee Trail of Tears--something only he could have pulled off. I greatly regret that he never completed his tetraology about the revolutions of 1849. Marsha Valance Regional Librarian Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped 813 West Wells St. Milwaukee, WI 53233 1.800.242.8822 [in-state] >>> orangest@UWM.EDU 03/20/02 03:25PM >>> Pamela Rush wrote: > > Mainly a comic/parody SF writer, wasn't he? I > remember short stories more than novels --not that he > didn't write them, but that I don't remember reading > any of the novels. His stories about an inept/bizarre > computer named Epit (or something like that) always > reminded me of sort of a cross between Stanislas Lem's > Cyberiad and ROn Goulart. Some of his ss crossed SF > and mystery the way Goulart often did, too. > > On the whole though, I'd have to say I'm not very > familiar with his works. No offense intended, but: oy! No, you certainly are not. He was an intensely metaphysical writer. Working from a basis in an intensely-felt Catholicism, but affected by many years banging about in some rather rough ways of life, he was "humorous" only in the sense that James Joyce was occasionally humorous. I especially recommend his novels PAST MASTER, FOURTH MANSIONS and ARRIVE AT EASTERWINE; and the anthologies NINE HUNDRED GRANDMOTHERS and DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE SOMETHING FURTHER TO ADD? When you start listing short stories, the list seems almost infinite... The Six Fingers of Time (1960), What's the Name of That Town? (1964), Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1966), Primary Education of the Camiroi (1966), Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne (1966), Land of the Great Horses (1967), Continued on Next Rock (1970), Entire and Perfect Chrysolite (1970), And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire... (1972), Eurema's Dam (1972), The Story of Little Briar-Rose: A Scholarly Study (1991), to name a few. I mourn his passing; yet, as a Christian, I hope eventually to see him once again in the Ultimate Con Suite, still looking like he should be propping up a lightpole on Bourbon Street.... -- Michael J. Lowrey Sunrise Book Reviews -------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------- 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: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:06:39 -0600 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: "Michael J. Lowrey" Organization: The Working Class Subject: In Memoriam: Raphael Aloysius Lafferty Comments: To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A quote from the man himself: "I'm the fellow who, for more than a quarter century, has faithfully maintained the thesis that all writers should be funny-looking, and all stories should be funny. Almost all of the evil in the world is brought about by handsome writers doing pompous pieces." -- Michael J. Lowrey, Editor-in-Chief Sunrise Book Reviews (hopes to see you all at WisCon) -------------------------------------------------- This is the feministsf listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV2.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe feministsf Contact feministsf-request@UIC.EDU if there are problems.