recovering women's science fiction
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Yaszek, Lisa
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- science fiction, emancipatie, gender, vrouwbeelden, feminisme, wetenschap, schrijvers, Verenigde Staten, 1950-1999
- Description
- Galactic suburbia is a cultural history of postwar women's science fiction, a genre used in the United Stated after 1945 by nearly 300 women writers. The book can be used as a reference resource for studying the science-fiction writers or as a source of information on the formation of literary genres, women's work, domesticity, and scientific endeavors. The book includes case studies of well known writers such as Judith Merril, Carol Emshwiller, and Anne McCaffrey, and of lesser known authors such as Alice Eleanor Jones, Mildred Clingerman, and Doris Pitkin Buck. Yaszek challenges conventional literaty histories that posit men as the progenitors of modern science fiction and women as followers who turned to the genre only after the advent of the women's liberation movement.