LEFANU, Sarah

LEFANU, Sarah
(1953-)
   UK academic whose Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind (anth 1985), ed with Jen Green (1954-), provided a forum for WOMEN SF WRITERS. The FEMINISM illustrated in that book could serve readers as a backdrop for In the Chinks of the World Machine (1988; vt Feminism and Science Fiction 1989 US), a solid nonfiction analysis of the work ofseveral contemporary sf writers, most notably Suzy McKee CHARNAS, Ursula K. LE GUIN, Joanna RUSS and James TIPTREE Jr. Through readings of someacuteness, SL argues that GENRE SF has provided a conceptual opportunity for women writers to speak in their own autonomous voices, unimprisoned by the patriarchal modes dominant in more "normal" literatures.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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