Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965
- ISBN-10
- 0739112678
- ISBN-13
- 9780739112670
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 429
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Author
- Eric Leif Davin
Description
'Partners in Wonder' explores our knowledge of women and science fiction between 1936 and 1965. It describes the distinctly different form of science fiction that females produced, one that was both more utopian and more empathetic than that of their male counterparts.
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