Mary Shelley usually gets mad props as the progenitor of feminist science fiction for her 1818 “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus.” But pride of place arguably goes to Mary Cavendish, who in ...

What is the coral reef project about, exactly? We wanted to do something that would also draw attention to the plight of coral reefs around the world, which are being devastated by global warming and ...

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. —Simone de Beauvoir (1970) A decade ...

Good science fiction movies are hard to find, but good feminist science fiction movies are even more rare. At least they were until Ridley Scott's 1979 smash hit, Alien, was released. Years later, the ...

Congratulations, taxpayers of America: You’ve just spent $412,930 on a “scientific” paper on the “relationship between gender and glaciers.” That’s what the National Science Foundation dropped on ...

Marleen S. Barr, ed. Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. xii + 323 pp. $65 cloth; $22.95 paper.

Sarah Lefanu. In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction. London: The Women's Press, 1988. 231pp. 5.95; Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989. $29.95 (cloth), $9.95 (paper) To the best ...

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Scott Yenor is director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Few social science findings are as durable, consistent, and striking as the idea that children ...

LISTEN UP, LADIES: Comedian Megan Amram wants to explain science to you in the most patronizing way possible. And guess what? You’re probably going to like it. Megan Amram: A year and a half or two ...

Beer scientist Dana Garves brewed her first batch of beer with her dad in their Seattle home’s basement when she was 17. Garves says her mom was furious, but the memory has fueled her love for craft ...