The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (911 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1933500336 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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--Gwyneth Jones, author of White QueenThe Secret Feminist Cabal is an extended answer to the question Helen Merrick asks in her introduction: ''why do I read feminist sf?'' In this wide-ranging cultural history we are introduced to a multiplicity of sf feminisms as Merrick takes readers on a tour of the early days of sf fandom, tracks the upheavals of the 1950s and 1960s and the explosions of feminist sf in the 1970s, and contextualizes subsequent developments in feminist sf scholarship. The Secret Feminist Cabal is more demanding, an ambitious project, but equally successful: this is a fine book. The results are bracing, well-informed, and sort of shocking. Helen Merrick's style is unassuming ye
Helen Merrick is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts at Curtin University, Western Australia. She lives in Western Australia. She co-edited the acclaimed Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism and is the co-author of a book on Donna Haraway, forthcoming from Columbia University Press. . She has pu
Merrick explores the stories told about feminist science fiction by the various communities responsible for creating feminist sf culture, including authors, editors, fans, and scholars from across the disciplines. The Secret Feminist Cabal will appeal to every member of the feminist sf community, to fans and critics interested in the history of the science fiction genre, and to anyone interested in the production of feminist culture, history, and theory.. In her cultural history of science fiction feminisms, Dr
As a textbook This book was bought as a textbook for a literature class. As a textbook I enjoy it. Merrick writes with a style that is easy to understand and well organized. I am learning from it. The subject matter, feminism, is too political for my reading taste. Merrick however, handles it well by stating various positions and the history of feminism pretty objectively, even the ones she does not agree with.If you enjoy the subject or if you are doing research on feminism I would definitely recommend this book. Once the class is over I, most likely, will not read again.