Future Females, The Next Generation

Marleen S. Barr is the author of many books and articles about feminist science fiction, including Future Females: A Critical Anthology (The Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1981); Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction (University of Iowa Press, 1992) and Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond (University of North Carolina Press, 1993). Barr, whose forthcoming book, Genre Seepage: A New Discourse Practice (University of Iowa Press), is the recipient of the 1997 Science Fiction Research Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in Science Fiction Criticism. She is a visiting professor in the Humanities Department at Montclair State University.

Future Females is THE final word on feminist science fiction and edited superbly by the premiere feminist in the field. The collection is wide-ranging and engaging, and entertains as it educates. It does everything that popular culture and feminist scholarship should do, and is a model for future outstanding work.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Introduction, "Everything's Coming Up Roses": Or, Mainstream Feminist Science Fiction, the UncolaPart 3 One: Utopia and Dystopia: A New Genre, Ecotopia, and the 1990sChapter 4 1 Gender and Genre in the Feminist Critical Dystopias of Katharine Burdekin, Margaret Atwood, and Octavia ButlerChapter 5 2 Revising Paradise: Judy Grahn's Ecotopia Mundane's WorldChapter 6 3 The Feminist Dystopia of the 1990s: Record of Failure, Midwife of HopeChapter 7 4 Post-Phallic Culture: Reality Now Resembles Utopian Feminist Science FictionPart 8 Two: Alternative Cyberpunk: Marge Piercy, Jeff Noon, and Pat CadiganChapter 9 5 The Biopolitics of Cyberspace: Piercy Hacks GibsonChapter 10 6 A Crossbreed Lonliness: Jeff Noon's Feminist CyberpunkChapter 11 7 Real Lives Complicate Matters in Schrödinger's World: Pat Cadigan's Alternative Cyberpunk VisionPart 12 Three: Sex/Gender: Eroticizing Cyborgs and Queering Science FictionChapter 13 8 The Erotics of the (Cy)borg: Authority and Gender in the Sociocultural ImaginaryChapter 14 9 Pin-Up and Cyborg: Exaggerated Gender and Artificial IntelligenceChapter 15 10 (Re)reading Queerly: Science Fiction, Feminism, and the Defamiliarization of GenderPart 16 Four: First Contacts: Re-Reading Jaoanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin and South Africa, and Eleanor Arnason's OtherChapter 17 11 Determinate Politics of Indeterminacy: Reading Joanna Russ's Recent Work in Light of her Early FictionChapter 18 12 Truth and Story: History in Ursula K. Le Guin's Short Fiction and the South African Truth and Reconciliation CommissionChapter 19 13 Incite/On Site/Insight: Implication of the Other in Eleanor Arnason's Science FictionPart 20 Five: New Female Heroes: Mexican Women and Chicanas, the Star Trek Scientist, and Tank GirlChapter 21 14 Mexican Women and Chicanas Enter Future FictionChapter 22 15 The Woman Scientist in Star Trek: VoyagerChapter 23 16 Postfeminism and the Female Action-Adventure Hero: Positioning "Tank Girl"Chapter 24 Postscript: A Real Future Female: Dreams, Truth, and HopeChapter 25 IndexChapter 26 About the Contributors