Venus and Mars

The following texts have been ordered from the UNBSJ bookstore or are available through links. We will be reading them in chronological order as they are presented here, presuming that they arrive in the bookstore on time:

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915; Dover, 1998, 0486404293).
• Phillip Wylie, The Disappearance (1951; U of Nebraska P, 2004, 978-0-8032-9841-5).
• Joanna Russ, “When It Changed” (1973) (available online).
• Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975; Beacon, 2000, 978-080706299-9).
• James Tiptree, Jr., Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1976) (available online in Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, through Google Books).
• Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1977; Orion, 1999, ISBN-10: 1857988086 / ISBN-13: 9781857988086).
• Suzy McKee Charnas, The Slave and the Free: Books 1 and 2 of The Holdfast Chronicles: Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines (1974, 1978; Tor, 1999, ISBN: 978-0-312-86912-0 / ISBN-10: 0-312-86912-6).
• Suzette Haden Elgin, Native Tongue (1984; Feminist Press, 2000, ISBN-10 1-55861-246-7 / ISBN-13 978-1-55861-246-4).
• Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985; Seal Books, 978-0-7704-2820-4 (0-7704-2820-7)).
• Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos (1986; Baen Books, 1994, ISBN:0-671-65604-X).
• Sheri Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country (1988; Spectra, 1993, 978-0-553-28064-7 / 0-553-28064-3).
• Nicola Griffith, Ammonite (1993; Del Rey, 2002, 978-0-345-45238-2 (0-345-45238-0) ).

NB: A few of these texts may be available online, particularly through Google Books. Be aware, however, that you won’t be able to print them out and it is not always easy to read extensively onscreen.)