To the Editors: In her review of Lisa Yaszek’s The Future Is Female!, Nicole Rudick claims that I missed “the forest for the trees” in my book Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926–1965. She is referring to my criticism of second-wave feminist SF scholars of the Seventies for their ignorance of female science fiction writers in the early SF magazines. Rudick excuses this ignorance by saying, “But how readily available were copies of SF magazines from the Forties and Fifties to women in the Seventies?” The answer is that they were just as available to women in the Seventies as they were to men such as myself.
Source : Early Sci-Fi: You Could Look it Up
