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Critical Essays:

“All that you touch you change”: Utopian Desire and the Concept of Change in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
Patricia Melzer

Journey Through Mlle. De Scudery’s Carte de Tendre: A 17th Century Salon Woman's Dream/Country of Tenderness
Gloria Feman Orenstein

Space Opera: Melodrama, Feminism and the Women of Farscape
Carlen Lavigne

Young Females as Super Heroes: Superheroines in the Animated Sailor Moon
Victoria Newsom

Film Review:

Japanese Magic: The Girl-Friendly Films of Hayao Miyazaki
K. A. Laity and Wendy Goldberg

Book Reviews:

Review of Anne Rice and Sexual Politics: The Early Novels
Youpei Zhou

Review of The Lieutenant Nun
Batya Weinbaum

Fiction:

Soul Spinner
Donna Marie Robb

Poetry:

Untitled
Marie Kazalia

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