Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction – Utopias and Dystopias
Judith A. Little (Ed)
Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books, 2007
411 pages, ISBN 9781591024149
This accessible and provocative collection of science fiction acquaints readers with cutting-edge gender controversies in moral and political philosophy. By imagining future worlds that defy our most basic assumptions about sex and gender, freedom and equality, and ethical values, the anthology’s authors not only challenge traditional standards of morality and justice, but create bold experiments for testing feminist hypotheses.
Authors include C.L. Moore, Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree Jr), Marion Zimmer Bradley, Suzy McKee Charnas and many newer voices. Excellent.
Image Source: The Feminist Science Fiction Group on Shelfari
Categories: ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism
QOTD for IWD: Aung San Suu Kyi 
This my axiom, by me, which is mine 
Grabbing somebody is Assault, and sexual touch makes it Sexual Assault. Stop minimising this. #rapeculture101 
Podcast: “Decommodifying Feminism” Panel at #FWF16 
Hoyden About Town 
Added to my wishlist too!
I wrote my BA thesis on Angela Carter’s postapocalyptic novels. I loved the process. That woman’s imagination was wild! And principled. Sci-fi is still a very unappreciated vehicle of social and ideological criticism.
Thinking women write! And/or queue to the libraries/bookshops.
It’s rather sadly ironic that they describe the book as “This accessible and provocative collection of science fiction acquaints readers with cutting-edge gender controversies in moral and political philosophy.” but this “accessible” collection of stories only available as a printed-words-on-paper book. There’s not in any electronic form that I can find online (with OR without DRM), so I can’t access the damm thing unless somebody has illegally scanned and uploaded it which is actually pretty unlikely since it’s a sorta “niche” book.
You’d think a publisher that describes itself as cutting-edge and concentrates on philosophical/moral connundrums would be more interested in letting the crips read the feminist book too, eh?
CynicalRicky
Thanks for mentioning your Shelfari group. For those who haven’t checked out Shelfari, come to: http://www.shelfari.com
-Amanda from Shelfari
ps. The pic of Diana Riggs makes me want to pull out my Avenger DVD’s