FEMSPEC
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2024.2.1Description
"FEMSPEC" is an interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres. HOLDINGS: Vol. 1 #1, 1999; Vol. 2 #1, 2000; Vol. 12 #1, 2, 2012; Vol. 16 #1, 2016; Vol. 18 #1, 2, 2018; Vol.19 #1, 2019; Vol 21 #1, 2, 2021; Vol. 22 #2, 2022; Vol. 23 #1, 2, 2023.Context
FEMSPEC was founded out of a perceive dlack of attention to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism and supernatural works in feminist journals and audiences; the lack of consistently developed levels of feminism in science fiction criticism; and the inadequacy of magical realist publishing outlets in the United States. Since its first issue in 1999, founding editor-in-chief Batya Weinbaum was offered a position teaching Multicultural Literature at Cleveland State University, where the journal was housed for five years. Subsequently she went on to take other positions at Pacifica Graduate Institute, East Carolina University, and SUNY-Empire State College-Center for Distance Learning, where she taught for nine years. She has been teaching primarily at the American Public University System since 2013; the journal has been surviving independent of university support since that time.Category
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