Jewish women science fiction writers create future females : Gender, temporality--and yentas / edited by Marleen S. Barr ; preface by Pamela Sargent ; afterword by Jack Dann.

Preface: In praise of Judith Merril / Pamela Sargent
Introduction: The invisible Jewish woman or Closed legs Finkelstein and Princess Vespa are fake Jews / Marleen S. Barr
Alien encounters (of the Jewish kind) / Elana Gomel
Miriam Michelson's The superwoman and the future of feminist recovery / Lori Harrison-Kahan
Seeing Judith Merril's personal and professional maternal I in "That only a mother" : an intuitive close encounter / Leigh Gold
On (not) saving the world : Joanna Russ's Extra (ordinary) people / Steven Shaviro
Traumatic timescapes : Holocaust memory in Jane Yolen's The Devil's arithmetic and Nava Semel's And the rat laughed / Elyce Rae Helford
Esther Friesner's funny, serious, and seriously funny speculative fiction / Jennifer Caplan
Gendered memory/Jewish biography : reading Elana Gomel's "Sea of salt" / Danielle Gurevitch
Imagining a new Ashkenazi motherland : alternate history in Simone Zelitch's Judenstaat / Lance Strate
Motherhood, survival, and post-humanism in Keren Landsman's "Alone, in the dark," "Burn Alexandra," and The heart of the circle / Erga Heller
Naomi Alderman's complaint : The power addresses feminist science fiction's new human female superheroes and celebrates women's real bodies / Marleen S. Barr
Space time travel : the r/evolutionary Kabbalistics of Natasha Lyonne's Russian doll / Adeena Karasick
Nursing on the teat of Godzilla : David Brin and Daniel Brin reminisce with their childhood friend Lisa Goldstein / Daniel Brin, David Brin, and Lisa Goldstein
Afterword Finally! / Jack Dann.