Kathleen L Spencer
Biographic Data
| ID | 6094986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen L Spencer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen L |
| FAMILY NAME | Spencer |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCER K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Purity and Danger
The construction of categories defining what is appropriate sexual behavior (normal/abnormal), or what constitutes the essential gender being (male/female); or where we are placed along a continuum of sexual possibilities (heterosexual, homosexual, paedophile, transvestite or whatever); this endeavor is no neutral, scientific discovery of what was already there. Social institutions which embody these definitions (religion, the law, medicine, the …
Rescuing the Female Child
Whereas, in a patriarchal culture, stories about a boy’s maturation process typically emphasize separation from parental figures, stories about a girl’s maturation tend to focus on her sexual initiation: his story is about individuation, hers about a new sort of intimacy and a merging of identity with her mate. But because feminists define female maturity in different terms, they need a different kind of story. In the fiction of Joanna Russ we fi…
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My aim in this paper is to answer some questions about the characteristic language of SF as a genre: (1) What are the norms or expectations—the conventions—by which readers interpret the sentences of SF texts? How do they make sense of sentences (like the one in my title) which, in a “realistic” text, would be nonsensical?: (2) What techniques do SF writers use to create and fulfill those expectations? I begin with Darko Suvin’s definition of SF …
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The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low”
My aim in this paper is to answer some questions about the characteristic language of SF as a genre: (1) What are the norms or expectations—the conventions—by which readers interpret the sentences of SF texts? How do they make sense of sentences (like the one in my title) which, in a “realistic” text, would be nonsensical?: (2) What techniques do SF writers use to create and fulfill those expectations? I begin with Darko Suvin’s definition of SF …
Vintage Delany
Unknown Black SF Writers
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Rescuing the Female Child
Whereas, in a patriarchal culture, stories about a boy’s maturation process typically emphasize separation from parental figures, stories about a girl’s maturation tend to focus on her sexual initiation: his story is about individuation, hers about a new sort of intimacy and a merging of identity with her mate. But because feminists define female maturity in different terms, they need a different kind of story. In the fiction of Joanna Russ we fi…
Purity and Danger
The construction of categories defining what is appropriate sexual behavior (normal/abnormal), or what constitutes the essential gender being (male/female); or where we are placed along a continuum of sexual possibilities (heterosexual, homosexual, paedophile, transvestite or whatever); this endeavor is no neutral, scientific discovery of what was already there. Social institutions which embody these definitions (religion, the law, medicine, the …
Art (6 works) · History (3 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Astronomy (1 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (1 works) · Criminology (1 works)