Victoria Lamont
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Lamont |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Lamont |
| SIGNATURE | LAMONT V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2241-0989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
Introduction
Daughter of Earth
Although Judith Merril is well known as an important editor and anthologist during the formative period of North American sf from the 1940s through the 1970s, her fiction has been largely overlooked by sf scholars. Even feminist work tends to proceed from the assumption that women did not become an important force in sf until the 1970s, and so excludes Merril’s writing from consideration as feminist sf. This article reconsiders the importance of …
The periodical press and western woman's suffrage movements in Canada and the United States
MoreThan She Deserves’’
How is it that the first significant victory in the history of the woman suffrage movement—the enfranchisement of women in Wyoming Territory in 1869—is also the most poorly remembered and understood? This article argues that the terms by which woman suffrage was deemed memorable in Wyoming were at odds with the historical material itself: Political women were frowned upon in Wyoming; hence memorials were erected to women who had played a relative…
Rugged Domesticity
In the four science fiction novels explored here, the post-atomic frontier is represented as a modern version of American civilization’s ongoing cyclical encounter with savagery, as identified by Rickard Slotkin. Although normalcy assumed critical importance as a means by which postwar American culture could regenerate from its encounter with savagery after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the idealization of normalcy conflicted with other …
Li(v)es of a Woman Homesteader
(2001). Li(v)es of a Woman Homesteader: Silence, Disclosure, and Self in the Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 219-236
Crossing Borders
IntroductionAlong with the Statue of Liberty, the metaphor of the melting pot has hada profound resonance with respect to images of the United States in bothnational and international contexts throughout the twentieth century. Al-luding to the history of the United States as a settler-colony, the melting potmetaphor (like the Statue of Liberty) refers to processes of immigration,relations of ethnic diversity, and notions of national identity and …
Crossing Borders
IntroductionAlong with the Statue of Liberty, the metaphor of the melting pot has hada profound resonance with respect to images of the United States in bothnational and international contexts throughout the twentieth century. Al-luding to the history of the United States as a settler-colony, the melting potmetaphor (like the Statue of Liberty) refers to processes of immigration,relations of ethnic diversity, and notions of national identity and …
Crossing Borders
IntroductionAlong with the Statue of Liberty, the metaphor of the melting pot has hada profound resonance with respect to images of the United States in bothnational and international contexts throughout the twentieth century. Al-luding to the history of the United States as a settler-colony, the melting potmetaphor (like the Statue of Liberty) refers to processes of immigration,relations of ethnic diversity, and notions of national identity and …
Li(v)es of a Woman Homesteader
(2001). Li(v)es of a Woman Homesteader: Silence, Disclosure, and Self in the Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 219-236
Rugged Domesticity
In the four science fiction novels explored here, the post-atomic frontier is represented as a modern version of American civilization’s ongoing cyclical encounter with savagery, as identified by Rickard Slotkin. Although normalcy assumed critical importance as a means by which postwar American culture could regenerate from its encounter with savagery after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the idealization of normalcy conflicted with other …
The periodical press and western woman's suffrage movements in Canada and the United States
MoreThan She Deserves’’
How is it that the first significant victory in the history of the woman suffrage movement—the enfranchisement of women in Wyoming Territory in 1869—is also the most poorly remembered and understood? This article argues that the terms by which woman suffrage was deemed memorable in Wyoming were at odds with the historical material itself: Political women were frowned upon in Wyoming; hence memorials were erected to women who had played a relative…
Daughter of Earth
Although Judith Merril is well known as an important editor and anthologist during the formative period of North American sf from the 1940s through the 1970s, her fiction has been largely overlooked by sf scholars. Even feminist work tends to proceed from the assumption that women did not become an important force in sf until the 1970s, and so excludes Merril’s writing from consideration as feminist sf. This article reconsiders the importance of …
Introduction
Introduction
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