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Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as Cure, published by Palgrave Macmillan

Discovering the Other Lives: Researching in the Feminist Science Fiction Archives

by Kathryn Allan, PhD, 2013 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship awardee

Author

Kathryn Allan

Publication Year

2014

Publication type

Annual Review

Kathryn Allan (l) chats with Jenée Wilde, then-CSWS development GTF, at the CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration in Nov. 2013

“The Other Lives”—Locating Dis/Ability in Utopian Feminist Science Fiction

by Alice Evans, CSWS Dissemination Specialist

CSWS interviewed Kathryn Allan, inaugural winner of the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, during her CSWS-supported visit to do research at the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives. Allan immersed herself in the archives, reading the letters of Ursula K. Le Guin, Joanna Russ, and other feminist science fiction authors, seeking out conversations about disability and utopia, and delighting in her discoveries.

Author

Alice Evans

Publication Year

2014

Publication type

Annual Review

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