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