The return of the obsessive tendencies

[marshtide]

OK. Feminist SFF and feminist books/articles about SFF. I'm making lists of stuff I might get hold of. But the lists are getting outrageously huge, and it looks like a really big chunk of the theory will be avaliable through the Swedish library system, and this is both great and terrible.

In short: if there's anyone you think is particularly brilliant or particularly terrible do please tell.

Obviously queer feminism is in some sense closest to my heart, but I'm wide open. I've covered some of the really obvious stuff in this area already, of course, but perhaps not that much.

I'm not scared of crunchy theory in English and I'm not scared of novels or moderately transparent non-fiction in Swedish. But I am scared of crunchy theory in Swedish.

(Which is to say: the next obsessive burst of Learning Stuff seems to have struck. Help.)

Comments

[unnique]

Shockingly (to me, at least), I actually know about some feminist SFF books. However, I can't through simple googling see if they've ever been translated into other languages (i.e. Swedish or English), so you might have to have at them in Norwegian if you want to check them out. :)

Ingard Knudtsen jr. has written a fantasy series originally called "Krigerkvinnene" (the warrior women), but now goes under the name "Amasonene". They're based on historic traces of matrarchies and goddess worship, and they're *very* feminist. I loved them when I was 18-20, but in hindsight I'm thinking maybe he overdid things a bit. :P http://forfatter.net/knudtsen/amasonene/amasonene.shtml

[dancing_moon]

I know that the SF bookstore stocks both Honmänniskan (Herstory) and some other old Swedish translations of feminist SF classics, very cheaply too. You may have to ask around a while though, because we keep most copies in the basement

Anyway, I just got told about this in a lecture and thought of you at once - Litteraturbanken.se. Their goal is to digitalize Swedish classics and the litterature science about it too =)

Soon (matter of days) they're going to put up all of Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria the first (and apparantly the one encompassing the most countries, to this day) literature history of women in the Nordic countries. English translation is also coming, but it's actually mostly a rather easy read. That is, it's a history, with plenty of pedagogical examples and few cases of academical inunderstandability language... Basically (and maybe you already know this and I'm just repeating myself, but I had a good lecturer = academic whee!), it's The Complete List of Writing Women in the nordic countries, and I bet a couple of the newer ones can be counted as SFF(-ish)

[marshtide]

Oh, that sounds brilliant (on both counts) - thanks for letting me know! (and "ish" definitely counts. I have a pretty broad definition of what falls into these categories. *g*)

[dancing_moon]

If nothing else, I got a lot of enjoyment from the chapters in the first book about women in (or women speaking) the Icelandic tales and Finnish folk tales. Bits and pieces of those myths have, if nothing else, made their way into fantasy through Tolkien and those after him

[busarewski]

Joanna Russ FTW!! I just love her theory stuff from the 70s, very accessible. And I need to read her SF one day, she's always one thos lists..

Donna Haraway is interesting is bloody complicated.

We had a pretty good anthology called the Gendered Cyborg when I too a feminism and SF course years ago..

[marshtide]

Thanks very much! :D