Alien Plots
Female Subjectivity and the Divine in the Light of James Tiptree’s ‘A Momentary Taste of Being’
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
277 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2000
At the heart of this stimulating and provocative study is a science fiction story by James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon-Bradley, 1916–1987) about a brother and a sister (and 58 other human beings) who encounter an alien while on a starship traveling to discover a habitable planet. The book includes an outline of Tiptree’s work and of her remarkable life as the only child of jungle explorers, as a painter, an American agent during and after World War II, an experimental psychologist, and a female science fiction writer in male disguise.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. Seed-beds: Crossing Theology, Feminism and Science Fiction
II. Sexual Universes
III. Father in Crisis, Mother Rises? 1. The Choric Fantasy
IV. Father in Crisis, Mother Rises? 2. (Extra)biblical Scenarios
V. (Counter) Apocalypses
VI. A Momentary Taste of Being
Notes
Index of Names and Terms
Introduction
I. Seed-beds: Crossing Theology, Feminism and Science Fiction
II. Sexual Universes
III. Father in Crisis, Mother Rises? 1. The Choric Fantasy
IV. Father in Crisis, Mother Rises? 2. (Extra)biblical Scenarios
V. (Counter) Apocalypses
VI. A Momentary Taste of Being
Notes
Index of Names and Terms
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