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Jun. 3rd, 2010 at 11: 17 PM james_nicoll asks, following Martin Wisse: Which of the 117 authors listed on Sandra McDonald's periodic table of women in science fiction have you read?

The women in sf meme james_nicoll 2010

Martin Wisse has compiled a nice Cyberpunk Reading List.

April 2009 2009

Martin Wisse has compiled a nice Cyberpunk Reading List.

SF Tidbits for 4/20/09 2009

Often busy with academic duties and also acting as an examiner for other universities, he produced few but influential scholarly publications, notably a standard edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1925; with E.V. Gordon), a landmark lecture on Beowulf (Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, 1936), and an edition of the Ancrene Wisse (1962).

Five People Born on January 3 | myFiveBest 2010

With Individual Ones The episode about Martin Peretz described by Ruth Wisse in "At Harvard, Groupthink About Islam" (op-ed, Oct. 1) is symptomatic of the inherent contradictions in modern liberalism, which seeks to subordinate individual rights to group rights.

Group Rights Clash 2010

Ruth Wisse of Harvard writes: "Women's liberation, if not the most extreme, then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible."

Diverse Views on What Women Want in Our Economy 2011

Wisse then tackled two fundamental questions of Jewish literature: “What makes a great Jewish book?” and “what makes a book ‘Jewish’ in the first place?”

Ruth R. Wisse. 2009

Intellectually, however, Wisse found her home in the political culture of the 1970s magazine Commentary.

Ruth R. Wisse. 2009

In addition to her political essays, which appear regularly in Commentary, The New Republic, and The Jerusalem Report, Wisse has published a Zionist critique of the American Jewish political climate, If I Am Not for Myself ...

Ruth R. Wisse. 2009

Ruth Wisse (b. 1936) was one of the first professors of Yiddish literature in North America and has contributed to the dissemination of knowledge about Yiddish culture through her monographs and edited books of literature in translation.

Judaic Studies in the United States. 2009