April 8th, 2008
by
Laura Q
I’d like to set up a linkblog here, but until I get the right layouts, it’ll just be posts here. So, a few discussions of interest for those of you who have read all of the Firefly/Allecto debates, are aching for a new feminist SF carnival, and looking for something to read:
- Ursula K. Le Guin vs John Paul II – A meditation on equality feminism and difference feminism, considering The Left Hand of Darkness and Pope John Paul II’s apostolic letter on the dignity of women, “Mulieris dignitatem”.
- How we Read SF; Women in SF Histories: Butler and Delany Teach Us How to Read and Use SF – interesting post from a week or two ago on the “Women, Art and Culture” blog – A rather freeform look at a variety of works, from Star Wars, to Butler’s Kindred, to Yolanda Lopez’ “Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe”; appears to be a women’s studies class blog.
- Don’t miss the post by Vandana Singh on Aqueduct about “Thoughts on Feminism and SF” – taking on the argument that support of some particular women immunizes one from critiques of sexism and misogyny.
- Did everyone see the short review in io9, by Charlie Jane Anders, about lesbian science fiction?
- And, the post that inspired me today: Purtek’s Firefly: The Trouble with Saffron, at The Hathor Legacy — a really thoughtful and close reading of Saffron and “Our Mrs. Reynolds”.
- Link removed per request of link-ee.
- Last but not least, Reading Women: Week 3 is a reading biography, detailing the author’s descent (my word, <g>) into SF. Paging through her blog (“feminist method: debates in feminist research”), I found a few other entries of note, such as Exploring ‘Women’s Voices’: Feminist Film Studies and Cultural Studies. Week 7., a discussion in particular of “Charmed” (a topic I believe we have never broached even once here on the FSF blog). If you like thinking about how you think, this will be a fun blog to explore. Please note: She requests that people please not copy and re-post her work, since it’s a research project and work in progress.
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Could you please erase the link from this blog to my blog. As many members of this community have made their positions in regards to radical feminism quite clear, I would prefer not to have my blogpost linked to by this community. This is a respectful request from one feminist sister to another. Please remove the link.
Thanks,
allecto
i removed the link per allecto’s request, but have a few comments to make about it.
(1) personally i find this attitude tiresome and somewhat petty: if you do not want attention from the internet, do not post your commentary on the internet. livejournal permits friends-only; most blogs have options to limit posts to registered members. if you do not want people to read or access your post, don’t make it searchable by google.
(2) our “community” of bloggers, commenters, and readers, basically includes the internet — which pretty much has access to google. since google turned up the post in response to a search for feminist sf that i get every day, allecto’s request is pointless as well as petty.
(3) i do not believe a request to remove a link to published material is “respectful” even if it is polite. i understand “respect” to involve engaging in discussion, or, when engaging is not an option or not of interest, recognition for the autonomy of others.
ironically, i honored allecto’s request because of my own patriarchal training to be polite, nice, and conflict-avoidant. this, despite the fact that her request is counter to everything that i believe as a feminist-without-adjectives. so patriarchal training got allecto’s post de-linked; but on-second-thought feminist ire got the request fisked. how’s that for irony?
Hey, thanks for putting my feministmethods link up, I’m glad you find it interesting. However, could you make sure you mention that there is no copying and pasting allowed from it without permission? It is part of my MA degree to write a journal of my development as a researcher (I chose blog form). My other site is the one I have linked to here.
Hi Liz — I did find it really interesting! If you have an electronic copy of the syllabus you could share privately, or could point me to an online copy, I’d love to look at it. you can reach me at lqonline at lquilter.net .
If your journal / post was intended to be private, please let me know. My comments to allecto’s request above are based on work that was intentionally published, and I should probably clarify my comment to that effect. I do not want to discourage actual privacy. … I don’t know a technical means to prevent copy/pasting at my end, although I can help you find some jscript techniques that you could apply at your end. But I posted a note to that effect by your entry. Hope that’s okay.
Laura
Anders’s calls that roundup of a handful of lesbian SF titles “exhaustive”, but I’d call it a sampling: it’s missing all kinds of things. If you want to go beyond it, I would recommend starting with a pair of Joanna Russ essays: “Amor Vincet Foeminam: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction” (which focuses on women-run worlds that are dystopias, or at least need a few men to come along to show the gals what they’re missing – these stories mostly written by men) and “Recent Feminist Utopias” (which focuses on utopias – these stories are mostly written by women.) One essay was published in 1980, and the other doesn’t seem to have a date but doesn’t list any sources after 1978. Nevertheless, they cover a large number of works, and you get Russ’s trenchant analysis of the common points within the two accidental subgenres and how they reflect the authors’, and their societies’, models of gender.
Russ’s collection To Write Like a Woman contains both essays, along with a lot of other good stuff.
Well, LauraQ, I for one am totally happy you linked to our site! :D
I particularly enjoyed the LeGuin link, as I just finished reading LHoD recently.