FEMSPEC
An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.
Femspec Vol 21, Issue 1, 2021
Editors Corner
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BATYA WEINBAUM. Introduction to 21.1
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Femspec Retrospective Continued
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CANDAS JANE DORSEY. Some Thoughts on the 20th Anniversary of Femspec
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Critical Articles
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HEIDI CURRAN BOJORES. Bitching Labor: Radicalized, Gendered Labor, in DeConnick-and De Landro's Bitch Planet
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MERRY BYRD. The Sankofa Spirit of Afro-futurisms in Who Fears Death and Riot Baby
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ZITA E. HUSING. Resisting Colonial Violence: Investigating Transhuman Bodies, (Dis)ability and De/Colonialization in Nisi Shawl’s Everfair
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Interviews
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REBECCA VINCENT. Spiritual Brokenness and the Healing Presence of the Sacred Feminine. Dispatches from Kohenet D’vorah J. Grenn, Ph.D. Part Two.
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In Memoriam
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ELEANOR PAM. Betty Friedan's 100th Birthday: Moving the Legacy Forward. Abridged Closing Remarks from the February 4, 2021, Webinar Organized by Veteran Feminists of America
Notes from the Inside
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BATYA WEINBAUM. Adjuncting 2020.
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Reviews
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JENNIE BAKER. Auditing the Superhero: A Review of Natalie Zina Walschots’s Hench
MERRY BYRD. Disaster, Dystopia, and Doubled—Mothering in Devolution, Followers, and Last Ones Left Alive
WINTER ELLIOT. Review of The Glass Hotel.
VALERIE L. GUYANT. A Review of Mulan.
VALERIE L. GUYANT. A Review of Lisa A. Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson’s Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction.
RASHMILA MAITI. Book Review: The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi.
PATRICK WILLIAMS. Changing the Narrative: A Review of Tochi Onyebuchi’s Riot Baby.
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