Partners in Wonder
Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965
1st Edition
Published on 7. December 2005
1 pages
979-8-7651-8410-3 (ISBN)
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Partners in Wonder revolutionizes our knowledge of women and early science fiction. Contrary to accepted interpretations, women fans and writers were a welcome and influential part of pulp science fiction from the birth of the genre. Davin finds that at least 203 female authors, under their own female names, published over a thousand stories in science fiction magazines between 1926 and 1965. This work explores the distinctly different form of science fiction that females produced-one that was both more utopian and more empathetic than that of their male counterparts. Partners in Wonder presents, for the first time, a complete bibliography of every story published by women writers in science fiction magazines from 1926 to 1965 and brief biographies on 133 of these women writers. It is thus the most comprehensive source of information on early women science fiction writers yet available and of great importance to scholars of women's studies, popular culture, and English literature as well as science fiction.
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Eric Leif Davin is Lecturer in the Department of History at University of Pittsburgh.
Content
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Science Fiction and the Contested Terrain of Popular Culture
Part 3 Part One - Presumption of Prejudice: Science Fiction's Contested Terrain, 1926-1949
Chapter 4 The Genesis of the Mythology
Chapter 5 Present at the Creation
Chapter 6 Weird Sisters
Chapter 7 Female Fandom
Chapter 8 Women Without Names
Chapter 9 The Usual Suspects
Chapter 10 Anecdotes and Antidotes
Chapter 11 Haven in a Heartless World
Chapter 12 Ebony and Ivory
Chapter 13 Femalien Empathy
Chapter 14 Feminist Futures
Chapter 15 History and Mythistory
Part 16 Part Two - The Crest of the First Wave: Science Fiction's Female Counter-Culture, 1950-1960
Chapter 17 Ecce Femina
Chapter 18 Alone Against Tomorrow
Chapter 19 Across the Great Divide
Chapter 20 A Counter-Culture of Tending and Befriending
Part 21 Part Three - Hidden From History:The Ebbing of First Wave Women's Science Fiction, 1961-1965
Chapter 22 Into Time's Abyss
Chapter 23 The Persistence of Myth
Part 24 Appendix I: Bibliography of Women Science Fiction Writers, 1926 - 1965
Part 25 Appendix II: Biographies of Women Science Fiction Writers, 1926 - 1965
Chapter 2 Science Fiction and the Contested Terrain of Popular Culture
Part 3 Part One - Presumption of Prejudice: Science Fiction's Contested Terrain, 1926-1949
Chapter 4 The Genesis of the Mythology
Chapter 5 Present at the Creation
Chapter 6 Weird Sisters
Chapter 7 Female Fandom
Chapter 8 Women Without Names
Chapter 9 The Usual Suspects
Chapter 10 Anecdotes and Antidotes
Chapter 11 Haven in a Heartless World
Chapter 12 Ebony and Ivory
Chapter 13 Femalien Empathy
Chapter 14 Feminist Futures
Chapter 15 History and Mythistory
Part 16 Part Two - The Crest of the First Wave: Science Fiction's Female Counter-Culture, 1950-1960
Chapter 17 Ecce Femina
Chapter 18 Alone Against Tomorrow
Chapter 19 Across the Great Divide
Chapter 20 A Counter-Culture of Tending and Befriending
Part 21 Part Three - Hidden From History:The Ebbing of First Wave Women's Science Fiction, 1961-1965
Chapter 22 Into Time's Abyss
Chapter 23 The Persistence of Myth
Part 24 Appendix I: Bibliography of Women Science Fiction Writers, 1926 - 1965
Part 25 Appendix II: Biographies of Women Science Fiction Writers, 1926 - 1965
