Introductions, Femspec Issue 15

By Femspec Journal

Introductions by Robert von der Osten, Janine Hatter, and Batya Weinbaum, Femspec's Herstory, Table of Contents, the Annual Report, Contributors, Notes from the Inside by Maija Hatton

• Language: English
• Publisher: Femspec Journal
• Release date: Dec 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311104038

Femspec Journal

Femspec is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to challenging gender in science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore and other supernatural genres. We have been in existence since 1999. See femspec.org. Our editorial board includes Suzanne Bellamy, William Clemente, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Philipa Kafka, Sylvia Kelso, Lysa Rivera,, Gina Wisker and Kimberly Brown. Our production team offers internships, apprenticeship and associate experiences to early career participants, our talent scout is Gloria Orenstein; advisory board, Suzy Charnas, Diane DiPrima, Pamela Sargeant, Sheila Tobias, Constance Brereton; contributing editors are Marleen Barr, Samuel R., Delany and Darko Suvin. Contact [e-mail] to subscribe, donate, submit, and get involved. We are as of Mar. 23 2018 in search of contract and author proof manager, peer review coordinator, creative and media editors. We also need an advertising manager, grants writer, and fundraiser.

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FEMSPEC

Volume 15 (2015): The Great Age Issue Part 2 

an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to challenging gender through science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore and other supernatural genres

Femspec V15.

Copyright © 2015 by Batya Weinbaum. All rights reserved. No part of this journal may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the author.

ISBN1523-4002

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Special thanks to the Production Team and peer reviewers Maria Alberto, Tangren Alexander , Jana Allmand-Zeman, Suzanne Bellamy, Butcher, Alicia Cole, Emily Cox, Stacey Hanes, Janine Hatter , Maija Hatton, Veronica Hollinger , Jennifer Lawlor, Helen Merrick, Gloria Orenstein, Melissa Rigney, Julie Vassilakos, Robert von der Osten, Batya Weinbaum, Gina Wisker, and Jenny Wrenn; and special friends and recent donors Derek Thiess, Robert von der Osten, Veronica Hollinger, Jennifer Smith-Kramer, Alicia Cole, Gloria Orenstein, Sylvia Kelso, Naomi Mercer, Sharon Leder, Emmaline Deihl, and Nick Birns.

Acknowledgments for the cover: Portrait of Constance Brereton under a Pipal Tree at Binares Hindu Canpus in Varanasi/Banares/Kashi, India, photo by Baba Raju Ram, Nov. 2013..

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Femspec’s Herstory

The moment the idea of the journal began to take over was our collective realization that many writers questioning gender might be similarly interested in the irrational, the unconscious, the primitive, the futuristic and the mythic, and that this might lead us to create and explore a different kind of aesthetic in our fiction, which might, in turn, need special focus in a new interdisciplinary sub-field.

Once we collectively pooled our individual stories, questioning began: what about women’s spirituality? What about including creative works? What about expanding from traditional notions of science fiction to more inclusive notions of speculative fiction. What about creative experimentation in the non-real, even if not futuristic and in outer space?

We are also interested in writing for, by and about girls, and nontraditional forms such as transcripts of women talking about the sf in imaginative fiction they would like to try, and critics interviewing authors.

We have a special interest in articles about teaching, feminist folklore, and feminist reclamation of folklore, and we search for buried stories that need to be reprinted and