5.0730 Rs: Alien Sex; Feminist Criticism of the Odyssey (3/30)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 28 Feb 1992 00:28:19 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0730. Friday, 28 Feb 1992.
(1) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 14:35 PST (17 lines)
From: YOUNGC@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU
Subject: Alien Sex
(2) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1992 09:42 PST (5 lines)
From: YOUNGC@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU
Subject: Re: Feminist criticism of the Odyssey
(3) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 92 11:25:27 EST (8 lines)
From: Joseph Raben <JQRQC@CUNYVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0703 [Feminist Criticism of the Odyssey]
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 14:35 PST
From: YOUNGC@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU
Subject: Alien Sex
Recently someone (I regret that I inadvertantly deleted the
message and so can't say who it was) asked about "alien
sex." The science fiction writer Larry Niven coined the term
"rishathra" for "sex outside of one's species, but within the
hominids" (sometimes just intelligent ones) in his novel _The
Ringworld Engineers_. He also discusses it in an illustrated
letter to _Science Fiction Review_, November 1978, reprinted
in his recent _N-Space_.
Charles Young
youngc@cgsvax.claremont.edu
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1992 09:42 PST
From: YOUNGC@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU
Subject: Re: Feminist criticism of the Odyssey
Samuel Butler's _The Authoress of the Odyssey_ may count.
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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 92 11:25:27 EST
From: Joseph Raben <JQRQC@CUNYVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0703 Qs: (various) (6/104)
I'm not sure how "feminist" it would be considered today, but as a
youth I read a satiric retelling of the Odyssey called _Penelope's
Man_, by an author called (John?) Erskine. He may have been a pro-
fessor at Columbia. It might be worth digging out.