Batya Weinbaum: 8 books

Book cover of Teaching Joanna Russ’s Consciousness-Raising Novels of the 70s: Three Decades Later by Batya Weinbaum, Femspec Issue 16.1
by Batya Weinbaum
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015

Since the turn of the millennium, I have had the wherewithal to create opportunities to teach three literature courses in times and places as seemingly remote as they possibly could be from the energy and spirit of the times and the movement in which Joanna Russ had originally written the two novels...
Book cover of Rats, Stones and the Goddess: A Conversation with Sabine Lichtenfels, Femspec Issue 9.1
by Batya Weinbaum
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015

Batya Weinbaum interviewed Sabine Lichtenfels in July, 2005 when invited to participate in the seminar for Peace Journalists at Tamera. Tamera is an international intentional community in Southern Portugal. They openly maintain free love lifestyle to free up energy to liberate and change an oppressive society, along the lines of New Left thinkers influenced by Marcuse and Wilhelm Reich.
Book cover of Memoirs of an Academic Career Femspec v. 8.1-2
by Batya Weinbaum
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015

An expose of the deeply troubling conduct toward women of the academic institutions as they exist in America. Here is an account of the damaging effects to one woman's academic career.
Book cover of Birthing in a Hotel Room in San Antonio, Femspec Issue 1.1
by Batya Weinbaum
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015

This brief introduction to the journal explains why the women writers and critics felt a need to begin an interdisciplinary journal. One reason for this need to create the journal was a common feeling of being alienated as writers in male-dominated publishing circles. The women who met in the Popular...
Book cover of Sex Role Reversals in Star Trek's Planets of Women as Indices of Second Wave Media Protest, Femspec Issue 1.1
by Batya Weinbaum
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015

The critique made is that popular shows on television are reactionary products of a culture that treats women as sex objects. The episodes of Star Trek critiqued in the journal are about how the feminist movement coincided with the sexist illustration of women in the television. Watching these Star...
Book cover of The Amusement Women Femspec v. 12.2
by Batya Weinbaum
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015

Sharon had discovered the encampment of women and children living under the cardboard packing boxes quite by accident one day when she had stepped into a booth in the hallway of the mall marked “DIAL A BREAST.” Just what had she discovered? The more she learned the stranger everything seemed but then again...
Book cover of The First FEMSPEC Salon: NWSA Albuquerque, Femspec Issue 1.2
by Batya Weinbaum
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015

This is a review of a meeting that took place during a conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. People from across the country gathered to discuss the progress of the FEMSPEC journal and how they became interested in working on it. Ideas for future editions were also discussed.
Book cover of Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities, Femspec Books
by Batya Weinbaum
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017

The first edition of this book successfully garnished copious positive reviews in publications such as the Journal of Latin American Geography, Utopian Studies, Journal of American Folklore, The Journal of the Association of Research on Mothering, NWSAJournal, Journal of Popular Culture; et cetera,...
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