{"id":7093,"date":"2022-06-09T21:12:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T21:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2024-08-26T21:15:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:15:05","slug":"cfp-when-it-changed-women-in-sf-f-since-1972-3-4-dec-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/2022\/06\/09\/cfp-when-it-changed-women-in-sf-f-since-1972-3-4-dec-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: When it Changed: Women in SF\/F Since 1972 (3-4 Dec 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Keynote Speakers: Cheryl Morgan and Joy Sanchez-Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To mark the 50th anniversary of Joanna Russ\u2019s landmark short story, \u2018When It Changed\u2019, the Science Fiction Foundation<\/a>, and the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic<\/a> and Games and Gaming Lab<\/a> the University of Glasgow are proposing an online conference on women\u2019s role in reshaping science fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fifty years after Russ\u2019s game-changing story, the major sf\/f prizes are being won by women, among them N.K. Jemisin, Mary Robinette Kowal, Laura Jean McKay and Martha Wells. To these we can add the posthumous success of Octavia E. Butler and the mainstream acclaim of writers such as Susanna Clarke. Despite such controversies as \u2018Puppygate\u2019, sf\/f now appears to be a more inclusive place, partly because of the role played by women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If sf\/f has indeed changed, in what ways did women help to cause this happen? On the other hand, does the glamour of sales and literary prizes for a few select authors disguise structural inequities within sf\/f that endure from the 1970s? We invite papers of 20 minutes in length that will debate these questions. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):<\/p>\n\n\n\n