Femspec Journal

Femspec Journal www.femspec.org We emphasize interdisciplinary approaches, and encourage work on teaching as well as literary, cultural criticism and creative material.

Femspec Journal is an interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore and other supernatural genres. Femspec, a peer-reviewed journal, is interested in developing a community of like-minded people engaged in speculating, theorizing, creating and questioning gender across the boundaries, including issues of sexual orientation. We

hope an approach to pedagogy will bring in work from a wider area of disciplines. We are interested in a variety of feminisms aim to be inclusive of ethnic and cultural diversity in an internationalist perspective. We are committed to publishing experimental feminist prose and poetic works which experiment across media. Our impetus came from the collectively perceived lack of attention to SF, fantasy, magical realism and supernatural works in feminist journals and audiences; the lack of consistently evolving developed levels of feminism in SF criticism; and the inadequacy of magical realism publishing outlets in the U.S.

Femspec 25.2 is going out as we speak! Going to subscribers. Fmi see
11/08/2025

Femspec 25.2 is going out as we speak! Going to subscribers. Fmi see

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25.2 is in production. We are recruiting a peer review coordinator and creative arts and literature editor. Both positi...
09/08/2025

25.2 is in production.

We are recruiting a peer review coordinator and creative arts and literature editor.

Both positions are volunteer. Each must subscribe to the journal and attend zoom collective meetings.

Email [email protected] fmi

10/03/2023

Yes we still need creative writer reviewers! Send an email to [email protected] with creative writer reviewers in the subject line, ty

09/21/2023

23.2 in mail

23.1, being mailed out now!
04/18/2023

23.1, being mailed out now!

04/13/2023

Fs23.1, special issue on Black Mirror, has begun being mailed out electronically! Hard copies being printed.

11/08/2022

22.2 arrives this week, digital subs already sent out! Spring issue on Black Mirror!

10/20/2022

22.2 is in production!

07/05/2022

"Femspec - Special Issue on Black Mirror" is now live on the Calls
for Papers website.

Femspec special issue: A Feminist Black Mirror? Rethinking Gender and/or Sexuality in the Digital Age through Charlie Brooker’s Dystopia

06/07/2022

We need creative writing reviewers, and a WIX website person....dm if interested

06/04/2022

Femspec, an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to challenging gender in speculative realms, announces its latest issue. We need a web person with WIX skills to help promote it. Please get in touch via femspec.org
Table of Contents
BATYA WEINBAUM. Introduction to 22.1 10
Critical Essays
ELIZABETH NICHOLS. Heroines and Female Affiliation: Women’s Support Networks in Contemporary Film and Cosplay
LAURA BIRKIN. The Protester’s Tale – The Handmaid Costume as Feminist Dystopian Protest Rhetoric
Creative Work
ALICIA COLE. Amorgos
BATYA WEINBAUM. HOWL Cacophony 2/4/2022
BATYA WEINBAUM. I am Ode to Anne Waldman Woman ALICIA COLE. The Wolds
SYLVIA KELSO. Veracunda Actress/Lucius Gladiator
In Memoriam
SALLY ABBOTT. Carol P. Christ (1945 –2021): She Changed Us, She Touched Us
Notes from the Inside
TOLULOPE ADEUSI. Behind the Scenes
Conference Coverage
LISA YASZEK et. al. Accessing the Feminist Science Fiction Archive MARTHA JOY ROSE. About Mother Studies and the Theory of Motherness
Books and Media Reviewed
COLLECTIVE REVIEW. Don’t Look Up
MERRY BYRD. Healing through Play, a Surrealist Mandate
MERRY BYRD. History’s Long Shadow and Heavy Weight
IRINA KUZMINA. Ishiguro, Kazuo. Klara and the Sun MERRY BYRD. Setting & Sacrifice in Second-Half 2021 Speculative Fiction
NOLAN BOYD. The Wheel of Time, Season One
Dr. Batya Weinbaum, [email protected], femspec.org

11/27/2021

Mail out 12/2 for 20.2

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