Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature

New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear. Pages are otherwise clean and clear.). Black cloth boards with silver spine lettering; light aqua dj with purple lettering and illustration, mylar cover; xviii, 305 pp. Contents: Sexuality and the allure of the fantastic in literature / Donald Palumbo -- Survival : the search for an ethic in a changing world / Judith Bogert -- Sexes, genders, and discrimination / William M. Schuyler Jr. -- Eve at the end of the world : sexuality and the reversal of expectations in novels by Joanna Russ, Angela Carter, & Thomas Berger / Brooks Landon -- Dialectic of sex and death in fantasy / Ann Morris -- From Barsoom to Giffard : sexual comedy in science fiction and fantasy / Judith Bogert -- Technology and sexuality in science fiction : creating new erotic interfaces / Valerie Broege -- Close encounters of the carnal kind : sex with aliens in science fiction / Leonard G. Heldreth -- Homosexuality in science fiction and fantasy / James D. Riemer -- Science and fiction : ways of theorizing about women / Virginia Allen & Terri Paul -- Permissive, unspectacular, a little baffling : sex and the single feminist utopian quasi-tribesperson / Marleen Barr -- Functions of sexuality in the science fiction of Russ, Piercy, and Le Guin / Judith Spector -- Speculations on heterosexual equality : Morris, McCaffrey, Le Guin / Lillian M. Heldreth -- Again, the left hand of darkness : androgyny or homophobia? / Patricia Frazer Lamb & Diana L. Vieth -- Romantic myth, transcendence, and Star trek zines / Patricia Frazer Lamb & Diana L. Veith.