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Farah Mendlesohn.

Publication: Extrapolation
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Farah Mendlesohn.(Special Section)(on women and science fiction criticism)(Essay)

Article Excerpt
* Before you decide that you are sick and tired of hearing me go on about the way female sf writers are being treated in recent science fiction criticism and particularly in "introductions to" type books, please consider seriously how sick and tired I am of having to make the point.

There is something rotten in the State of Sf criticism, and it is the way in which women writers are sidelined into chapters on feminism. I first picked up this point in my review of Roger Luckhurst's Science Fiction: a Cultural History of Literature in which a cursory consideration of the index reveals a marked absence of women writers until after p. 180, when feminism becomes the topic. I noticed it again this week when I reviewed Istvan Csicseray-Ronay Jr.'s excellent Seven Beauties of Science Fiction and noted the omission of the leading author, Suzette Haden Elgin, in a...

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