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From: QUINT@RED.RUTGERS.EDU
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Subject: Re: feminist authors
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 00:25:39 EDT
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From: Anne Marie Quint {/amqueue} 


    Date: 16 Oct 85 13:15:17 PDT (Wednesday)
    From: Caro.PA@Xerox.ARPA
    Subject: Re: feminist sf/fantasy

    Here are my favorites:

    * The Screwfly Solution, James Tiptree Jr.
    For a man, Tiptree sure writes strong female characters well.  I
    also enjoy the upbeat endings that his novels always have.

    * Witch World, etc., by Andre Norton
    Another male writer who espouses feminist views.  His female
    characters are also very well written.

 Im sure you will hear this from many others, but both James Tiptree and 
Andre Norton are female. James Tiptree has written under other names, notably
Raccoona Sheldon. I believe her last name is Sheldon, but I dont remember
more than that. I dont know if Andre Norton's real name has ever been
publicized.

    Others have suggested that John Norman's Gor series treat women in a
    radically different way than most other authors, but I haven't had a
    chance to read any of those books.

The gor series does indeed treat women in a radically different way... but not
in a good sense. Very few other authors have females who enjoy slavery to
a strong virile male and think it the normal, natural, *fulfilling* thing
to do. Then again, of course the male is strong and virile... how could he
be otherwise? he is male...

bletch barf puke
/amqueue
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