Femspec Journal: 16 books

Femspec 17.1 contains criticism, interviews, exhibition reviews, and personal reflection. An interdisciplinary journal dedicated to challenging gender through science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore and other supernatural genres, Femspec fills a much needed space in the speculative, academic, and feminist publishing communities.

An interdisciplinary journal dedicated to challenging gender through science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore and other supernatural genres. Includes introduction, table of contents, best of third five years contest, and information about contributors.In this third installment...

Femspec 17.2 A feminist speculative journal.

Femspec 18.1, Women Riding on Horses Issue. Containing original and academic works, reviews, interviews, and more. Femspec 18.1 delves into how women harness their own power and move forward.

Naomi Mercer is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, a veteran of the Iraq War, and an assistant professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She earned her doctorate in literary studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison...

Introductions by Robert von der Osten, Janine Hatter, and Batya Weinbaum, Femspec's Herstory, Table of Contents, the Annual Report, Contributors, Notes from the Inside by Maija Hatton

Includes: MARGARET CRUIKSHANK. Paper from a NWSA Panel on Science Fiction and Ageing: Oakland, 2012 JENNIFER JODELL. Report on “Agents of Change”: Feminist SF Critics Meet Feminist SF Authors at University of Oregon BATYA WEINBAUM. Femspec Salons at OLOC and NWSA, 2014

A girl's SF by a nine year old in 1961 is a young work that FEMSPEC sometimes includes. Since “girls have the same fantasies of omni potence and infinite transformation boys do,” a nine year old girl shows the early attention to the joys of space invasion.Her "found" fiction contains...

Book reviews of Daughters of the Great Star by Diana Rivers; Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey and Naomi Mitchison, a Profile of Her Life and Work by Lesley Hall. Review of the film, Fissures.

Features four book reviews as well as books and media received: BARBARA ARDINGER. The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art: Art History Reconsidered, 1800 to the Present, by Charlene Spretnak MAIJA HATTON. A Writer’s Journey: What to Know Before,During, and After Writing a Book, by Carren...

Book Reviews: Desert Years: Undreaming the American Dream, by Cynthia Rich and Look Me in the Eye: Old Women Ageing and Ageism, by Cynthia Rich and Barbara McDonald (Reviewed by Maria Alberto) A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tices, by C. A. Conrad (Reviewed by Maija Hatton) Ardor: Poems...

Features an Exhibition Review titled "Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, Shenyang, China, April 2014", a non-fiction essay, "To Live a New Life", and photomontage, "The Move to China Photomontage."

Features poems by: ANTIGA. I am the Old Hag SUSA SILVERMARIE. An Intimate Conversation BATYA WEINBAUM. Epitaph for my Tombstone Fiction: SAVANNAH MILLER. Omens, Chapter 1 R. ELENA TABACHNICK. Phoenix End Art: JENNY WRENN. Furies 1 JENNY WRENN. Furies 2 JENNY WRENN. The Phoenix

Fairy stories, it seems, are growing up. Neil Gaiman’s novel Stardust (1999) and Matthew Vaughn’s 2007 film adaptation of the same name are just two examples of the form’s recent resurgence, particularly in film. Recent additions to the genre are distinctly different from those of the classical...