the feminist sixth wave

Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,"
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/H…

A ray of hope:
today was like another day in the dear dear nurse school. Talking,
walking, thinking, lame arguing, lovely words, BUT THEN: an exciting
discovery unfold that male is loosing its ability of having erection.
The sperm is getting worse and worse (it's never lousy enough).
But it will take oevr 100 years to extinction.
And so today kept on going on, like all the other days with evil
scissors giving sweet images of the surgery saving this world.

This is stupid, I know, but my heart is broken

Here are some books that I would call Feminist Utopias.

"Herland" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (3 men discover a lost civilization where there are no men)

"With Her in Ourland" Sequel to Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (One of the women from Herland journeys into our land)

"The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin (A deliberate utopia on the moon of a non utopian world)

"Ecotopia: the notebooks and reports of William Weston" by Ernest Callenbach (parts of California as a utopian society)

"The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You" by Dorothy Bryant (a hidden utopian society)

"The City Not Long After" by Pat Murphy (post apocalypse utopian society)

"The Fifth Sacred Thing" by Starhawk (parts of California as a utopian society)

"Daughters of a Coral Dawn" by Katherine V. Forrest (Woman colonize a planet)

"Ammonite" by Nicola Griffith (a human colony with no men)

"Glory Season" by David Brin (a deliberately feminist genetically engineered colony)

"Voice Out of Rama" by Lee Killough (a human colony with few men)

"The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin (a species with changeable genders)

Can anyone suggest others? or comment on these?

Has anyone here read "The Fifth Sacred Thing" by Starhawk?

(cross-posted from my own journal)
Years ago, I first read Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin (I have the crappy trade paperback version with the goofy-looking lizardy alien on the cover). If you haven't read them, it's enough to know that one key point in the novels is an attempt by women linguists to create a deliberately subversive language called Láadan. (My "Dirty Lingoe" appellation here was taken from those books, so they clearly left a mark.)

In the process of playing with KDict on my new laptop, I discovered that the Easton Bible Dictionary has some interesting notes, which I excerpt here (emphasis mine):

[A] very small number of topic references [...] were unable to be resolved. These topics are:

  Laadan, Land Laws, Vashni.

These topics are not listed in the printed edition and it is not apparent what [Mr. Easton] intended.

"Hello," I thought. "How interesting that Laadan should show up in this 1897 Bible dictionary -- without reference. Let me Google on this."

( find out what I discovered...Collapse )

One last note: there's a whole set of interesting discussion questions about the Native Tongue novels. I wonder if there's anybody reading this who would be interested in an online discussion.

Hey, I was wondering if any of you can show me, or at least describe, examples of 1970s feminist activist art/design (ie: posters, ads etc.)? I need the overall "aesthetic" that was prevalent at the time... doing a typographical piece that needs to show a clash between futurism and feminism.

Strange Bedfellows

.....feminism meets alien abduction.

The Kappa Child, Hiromi Goto, Red Deer Press [she mentions Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, as one of her faves -- it's one of my faves too, very recommended]
and
The Fresco, Sheri S. Tepper, Harper Collins/Eos
The Song of the Earth, by Hugh Nissenson, Algonquin Books
Half Known Lives, by Joan Givner, New Star Books
Dark Light, by Ken MacLeod, Tor Books

this community journal was started (among other reasons) for discussion of the future of feminism and visions of a future in which the feminist movement succeeds. i updated the interest list & community info to bring in discussion of feminist science fiction, speculative fiction, and other feminist visions of the future.

• James Tiptree, Jr., Memorial Award
  
• Feminist Science Fiction
  
• WisCon: The World's Foremost Feminist SF Con
  
• Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia
  
• FSFSFF: Feminist Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, & Fantasy
  
• Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Discussion Group
  

hi everyone,

my name is mollie, and i'm new here :)

i'm compiling some information for a book and i have a short littler survey that i'd love for anyone to take, if you get a chance. please just post yr responses right in the comment section. names aren't necessary unless you really want to give them to me, but no last names please. you can even post anonymously if you really want to.

thanks!

please tell me:
your age
your location
your occupation

and then tell me: (and please be as detailed as possible)

do you feel that you are "in touch with your femininity"? why or why not? do you feel that you can accurately define what it is to be feminine, at least on your own terms?

do you enjoy being a woman? do you hate it? are you indifferent about it?

do you feel that IN GENERAL there is a sense of community among women? have you (or do you) felt disenchanted or disconnected from your female-ness? has connections and community with women helped that feeling?


thank you all soooooooooo much. this is really going to help me :)

love
mollie