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From Place to Space: Women in Science and Sci-Fi

Was on display in Rose Library, December 2017. Selected by Liz Chenevey

Journey from Earth during the scientific revolution to galaxies far far away, and explore the different roles women play along the way as creators, characters, and companions. Enjoy a variety of scientific theory, biography, sci-fi and other speculative fiction written by and about women.

Books

Dignifying Science: Stories about Women Scientists

Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online

Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway

Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscape for Politics

Doctor Who in Time and Space: Essays on Themes, Characters, History, and Fandom, 1963-2012

Who Travels with the Doctor?: Essays on the Companions of Doctor Who

Sexual Generations: "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and Gender

Religious Science Fiction in Battlestar Galactica and Caprica: Women as Mediators of the Sacred and Profane

Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television

Gendering Science Fiction Films: Invaders from the Suburbs

Gender in Science Fiction Films, 1964-1979: A Critical Study

Star Wars and History

Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World

Science Fiction Culture

Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

Women of Marvel

Bitch Planet

Ms. Marvel: Crushed

The Savage She-Hulk (#1-25)

The Essential Frankenstein: The Definitive, Annotated Edition of Mary Shelley's Classic Novel

Frankenstein

Identity in Doris Lessing's Space Fiction

Gendered Pathologies: The Female Body and Biomedical Discourse in the Nineteenth Century English Novel

Women's Utopian and Dystopian Fiction

The Edible Woman

The Handmaid's Tale

Cat's Eye

The Year of the Flood

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

Feminist Narrative and the Supernatural: The Function of Fantastic Devices in Seven Recent Novels

Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture

The Lesbian Fantastic: A Critical Study of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal and Gothic Writings

Emily Dickinson and the Hill of Science

Feminist Ecocriticism: Environment, Women, and Literature

Seed to Harvest: contains the novels Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster

Remarkable Creatures

The Signature of All Things

On Joanna Russ

The Fifth Sacred Thing

The Book of Joan

A Vision of Fire

Who Fears Death

Tender

The Winged Histories

Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965

Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction

Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction

A Woman's Liberation

Breaking Through the Spiral Ceiling

Black Women Scientists in the United States

Hidden Figures

Lab Girl

A Butterfly Journey: Maria Sibylla Merian, Artist and Scientist

Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: Doing Science Together