For women-identified writers of both eras, the fantastic offered double vision. Not only did the genre offer strategic cover for challenging the status quo, but

Do you know how it feels to run for 1,900 miles? Or to look down at the earth from a space station? Or to swim alongside a hungry shark? Fantastic Female Advent

Although the last three decades have offered a growing body of scholarship on images of fantastic women in popular culture, these studies either tend to focus o

It includes introductions to the life and work of female authors who are not very well known in the Anglophone world due to the lack of translations of their wo

"Contemporary fantastic fiction, particularly that written by women, often challenges traditional literary practice. At the same time the predominantly male-aut