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Khatru 3 & 4: Symposium on Women in Science Fiction

Edited by Jeffrey D. Smith, 1975; Revision edited by Jeanne Gomoll, 1993

Originally published and edited by Jeffrey D. Smith in 1975, this symposium on women in SF included writing by some of the most well-known authors (plus an agent) of 70s feminist science fiction: Vonda N. McIntyre, Virginia Kidd, Suzy McKee Charnas, Kate Wilhelm, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, (the still mysterious) James Tiptree, Jr., Samuel Delany, Joanna Russ, Raylyn Moore, Luise White and Jeffrey D. Smith. The opinions expressed by Khatru’s participants are still amazingly radical.

This version of Khatru 3 & 4 was published by the 1993 Corflu 10 committee, commemorating the role of feminist SF in Madison fandom. This version includes new material by original participants and commentary by others, including Jane Hawkins, Mog Decarnin, Pat Murphy, Karen Joy Fowler, Gwyneth Jones, and Jeanne Gomoll. New illustrations by Georgie Schnobrich.

$18.00, 140 pages photocopy, 8 1/2" x 11"

    

Contents

Introductions

The original symposium:

SF is suited to the needs of any group that feels itself to be oppressed

That’s a Girl?

With Tiptree through the Great Sex Muddle

Samuel R. Delaney: Letter to the Symposium on “Women and Science Fiction” under the control, for some deeply suspect reason, of one Jeff Smith

The original anthology sweekpstakes

There actually are women in science fiction

Commentary: Perhaps we should all back up and start over

Trashing

The sexist nature of the heroic quest form

Gimmicks are not enough

This is your life

Women science fiction writers don’t sell

Commentory: If only one could get away from the whole world but that would be lonely

Female equals nature equals death

Commentary: If men did not exist, would women have invented them?

Commentary: Any freedom that is granted can be rescinded

The symposium not long after

Delany

Smith to Delany, 12/14/1974

Tiptree to Delany: 2/10/7

In a spirit of rambunctiousness—Contemporary material: winter 1992–Spring 1993

Russ, 12/1/92

Le Guin, 12/5/92

Moore: 1/9/93

Wilhelm, 1/15/93: Where have all the women gone?

Charnas, 3/1/93

On violence

McIntyre, 3/31/93

Charnas, 4/15/93

McIntyre 3/22/93

Other voices

Jane Hawkins: When it changed

Mog Decarnin: Delusion and the feminist

Pat Murphy

Karen Joy Fowler

Gwyneth Jones: Khatru Sex Symposium

Jeanne Gomoll