I dunno if Shawna McCarthy edited the first feminist speculative fiction anthology (Amazon has one, Space of Her Own (http://www.amazon.com/Space-Asimovs-Science-Fiction-Anthology/dp/B000NQBZGY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262723073&sr=1-2), from 1983, and check out the gender politics of that cover), but citing that credential actually just reinforces my point: she edited an all-women-authors SF anthology THIRTY YEARS AGO. Have we not moved on at all?
This is not to diss Shawna McCarthy, and CERTAINLY not to diss the fact that she edited an all-women-authors SF anthology in 1983--because that's an honorable achievement, and I know it. It's just to say that this feels like we're stuck in a time warp.
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Date: 2010-01-05 08:32 pm (UTC)I dunno if Shawna McCarthy edited the first feminist speculative fiction anthology (Amazon has one, Space of Her Own (http://www.amazon.com/Space-Asimovs-Science-Fiction-Anthology/dp/B000NQBZGY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262723073&sr=1-2), from 1983, and check out the gender politics of that cover), but citing that credential actually just reinforces my point: she edited an all-women-authors SF anthology THIRTY YEARS AGO. Have we not moved on at all?
This is not to diss Shawna McCarthy, and CERTAINLY not to diss the fact that she edited an all-women-authors SF anthology in 1983--because that's an honorable achievement, and I know it. It's just to say that this feels like we're stuck in a time warp.