{"614805":{"#nid":"614805","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Secret History of Science Fiction\u0027s Women Writers: The Future is Female!","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/yaszek\u0022\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in a\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EBoing Boing\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Earticle entitled\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;\u0026#39;The Future Is Female\u0026#39;: New anthology collects sci-fi by women.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEminent science fiction scholar Lisa Yaszek (Georgia Tech Professor of Science Fiction in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication) has edited\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/amzn.to\/2P9XPHC\u0022\u003E\u0026quot;The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin,\u0026quot;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;a forthcoming anthology of science fiction (and scientifiction!) by woman writers from the 1920s published last month by Library of America.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a wide-ranging interview about the book, Yaszek discusses the historical research she did on the influence women writers had on the field and the ways that their contributions were viewed, and her discovery that the received narrative (women were viewed with suspicion and wrote under androgynous or masculine pen-names to avoid stigma) is at best incomplete and often dead wrong.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/11\/29\/sheroes.html\u0022\u003ERead the full article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2018-11-29 22:26:41","changed_gmt":"2018-11-29 22:26:41","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"the bulletin","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/11\/29\/sheroes.html","dateline":{"date":"2018-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"612259":{"id":"612259","type":"image","title":"The Future is Female!","body":null,"created":"1538514260","gmt_created":"2018-10-02 21:04:20","changed":"1539181684","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:28:04","alt":"Front cover of the book The Future is Female! by Lisa Yaszek","file":{"fid":"233063","name":"81JYreWrktL.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/81JYreWrktL.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/81JYreWrktL.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":496570,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/81JYreWrktL.jpg?itok=z_RAD4Yo"}}},"media_ids":["612259"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11021","name":"Lisa Yaszek"},{"id":"179268","name":"The Future is Female"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}