Dr. Barr Reporting for Duty!

Abstract

Special guest Dr. Marleen S. Barr joins the labsters and talks about her new book "The Feminist Science Fiction Justice League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber: Political Power Fantasy Fiction". Dr Barr is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction and teaches English at the City University of New York. She has won the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism. Barr is the author of Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction, and Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies. Barr has also edited many anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of PMLA. She is the author of the novels Oy Pioneer! and Feminist Planets: A Fake Memoir.