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Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who Paperback – November 13, 2012
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- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMad Norwegian Press
- Publication dateNovember 13, 2012
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches
- ISBN-109781935234128
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- ASIN : 1935234129
- Publisher : Mad Norwegian Press; First Edition (November 13, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781935234128
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- Item Weight : 13.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches
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Eight-time Hugo Award winner Lynne M. Thomas is the Co-Editor-in-Chief and Co-Publisher of the four-time Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine with her husband Michael Damian Thomas. The former Editor-in-Chief of Apex Magazine (2011-2013), she co-edited the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords, as well as Whedonistas and Chicks Dig Comics. She moderated the Hugo-Award winning SF Squeecast and contributes to the Verity! Podcast. In her day job, she is the Head of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Rare Book and Manuscript Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of the largest public university rare book collections in the country. You can learn more about her shenanigans at lynnemthomas.com.

Amal El-Mohtar is an award-winning author and critic: her short fiction has won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards, while her poetry has won the Rhysling award three times. She is the author of THE HONEY MONTH, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different kinds of honey, and writes the OTHERWORLDLY column for the New York Times Book Review. She's the co-author, with Max Gladstone, of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, an epistolary time-travelling spy vs spy novella. Find her online at amalelmohtar.com, or on Twitter @tithenai.

Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award winning blogger, podcaster and fantasy author who lives in Tasmania with her family. She has a PhD in Classics and a particular attachment to Roman history, which infuses her work.
Tansy's books range from the light-hearted Teacup Magic novellas to the darker and more epic Creature Court trilogy. She also co-hosts the Verity! podcast, and is well known for writing feminist commentary on pop culture including superhero comics, fantasy fiction and Doctor Who.
In 2013, Tansy won the Hugo for Best Fan Writer thanks to the critical writing on her blog. This made her the first Australian woman ever to win a Hugo Award. She won it a second time in 2015 in the Best Fancast category with the feminist SFF podcast Galactic Suburbia.

K. Tempest Bradford is an award-winning teacher, media critic, and author of fantasy and science fiction steeped in Black Girl Magic. Her debut middle grade novel Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion is now out from FSG for Young Readers.
Tempest’s short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies and magazines, including In The Shadow of the Towers and Strange Horizons. Her media criticism and essays on diversity and representation have been published at NPR, io9, Ebony Magazine, and more.
She teaches classes and gives talks on representation and creating diverse narratives for Writing the Other and has been invited to teach at Clarion West, LitReactor, universities, and entertainment companies.
She’s the recipient of the 2020 LOCUS Special Award for Inclusivity and Representation Education and the 2022 Lemonade Award. She’s been nominated for FIYAH Magazine‘s IGNYTE Community and Ember Awards.
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Teresa Jusino was born the day Skylab fell. Coincidence? She doesn't think so. A native New Yorker, Jusino has been telling stories since she was three years old and she wrote a picture book in crayon in nursery school. She has since brought her "feminist brown person" perspective to pop culture criticism at such diverse sites as GirlGamer.com, Tor.com, ChinaShop Magazine, PopMatters, Newsarama, Pink Raygun, as well as her own blog, The Teresa Jusino Experience. Currently, she writes for the Philadelphia-based Spanish-language newspaper, Al Dia, and she is a book reviewer for NerdSpan.com. Her essay, "Why Joss is More Important Than His 'Verse" can be found in the book Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon By the Women Who Love Them (2011, Mad Norwegian Press). Jusino has recently been published in two Doctor Who-related anthologies: Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who (2012, Mad Norwegian Press), and Outside In: 160 New Perspectives on 160 Classic Doctor Who Stories by 160 Writers (2012, ATB Publishing). In addition to her non-fiction, Jusino is also a writer of fiction. Her short story, December, was published in Issue #24 of the sci-fi literary journal, Crossed Genres. A writer of both prose and film/television scripts, she relocated to Los Angeles in September 2011 to give the whole television thing a whirl. She'll let you know how that goes just as soon as she stops writing bios about herself in the third person.
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This collection was a particularly great source of information about other spinoffs, books, films, etc. on a subject I never get tired of hearing about.
Of course, the "hook" of this volume is that the essays are all written by women. This does not lead to as many unique insights as one might expect but I did enjoy the varying analysis of the different female companions which comes up quite often here, as one would expect. There seemed to be a recognition of the fact that, for all the series is criticized for weak women, many of the companions are quite strong--Barbara, Liz, Sarah Jane, and Romana, to name a few. It may be the loss of stronger female that hurt the series in the eighties as Jennifer Pelland's excellent essay "The Problem with Peri" makes one think. But it's not all female companions. I also found Kelly Hale's essay on the TV movie to be top notch. Her argument that the TV movie despite its weaknesses and lack of success eventually led to the reboot of the series because of the novels and audio stories it inspired is compelling.
What is less compelling is the non-sequential ordering of the essays. Despite the "timey-wimey" argument for randomness made in the introduction, I did not find the argument or the ordering useful. Telling me I can flip around and read them in order if I want to is not much of a useful suggestion either, in my estimation. I think our editors would have been better off to take us through the journey of the show.
Still, these are quibbles. This is a strong collection of essays. Each one covers an entire season of the show in a manageable length, keeping the entire book manageable. It is a pleasure to read.
Whether you're a new series fan or an old series fan, you will find something here to please you: discussions of feminism, character, companions. If you've only seen the new series, the essays about the classic episodes may lead you to new experiences as you look up those videos as well.
[Did get a chuckle out of the reference to the cut of David Tennant's "gib." I think they meant "jib." Evidently either the author or the proofreader isn't familiar with sailing.]
So far I've read / scanned about four chapters of this collection. It is a series of essays by women fans explaining why they like Doctor Who and what hooked them on the series. Each chapter highlights on specific seasons and specific Doctors. The women come from various backgrounds, although all appear to be well educated and many are authors in their own right.
Personally, I find the essays (the ones that I've looked at so far) long and tiring. In fact, I find that the essays tend to ramble, and while I appreciate that each of these women came to view Doctor Who for different reasons, I really don't see the point in the book. Truthfully, you could easily replace every woman who wrote their opinions with a man and gotten the same affect, which is to me is that fans of Doctor Who come from varied backgrounds and they love the series for their own individual reasons; reasons that may or may not jive with another persons reasons.
All in all, I believe that the book was made to profit off the belief that it is amazing that women find science fiction interesting, which to me is insulting. Women have been part of science fiction from the earliest days of it and women have been part of science for hundreds of years if not more. Perhaps their numbers have been less than that of men and the recognition of their involvement has been lacking, but they have been there and to put forward a book based solely on one genders view of a topic is a little sexist and outdated.
For me, 'Chicks Unravel Time' is a flop with no real substance and definitely not my cup of tea. If your into this kind of book, go for it - it is a free world, however I cannot recommend this book to anyone.
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Chicks Unravel Time reprend le principe du recueil d'essais écrits exclusivement par des femmes (mais non exclusivement POUR des femmes), et nous propose cette fois de détricoter la série saison par saison - de la Saison 1 des classics jusqu'à la saison 6 du NuWho.
On nous offre le choix de lire dans l'ordre des saisons ou dans l'ordre "aléatoire" proposé par le livre. J'ai lu dans l'ordre du livre (parce que céplupratique, d'autant qu'on n'a pas le numéro des saisons dans l'index) et c'est ce que je conseillerai plutôt - d'abord parce que c'est plus amusant dans le désordre et que ça ressemble assez à la façon que l'on a pour la plupart de regarder la série finalement; ensuite parce que si les premiers essais ont comme un petit goût de "review de blog" (ça n'est pas une insulte, on trouve de brillantes reviews sur le net, mais ça n'est pas ce que je cherchais ici), au fil des pages les sujets se creusent de plus en plus et j'ai trouvé ça de plus en plus passionnant.
Contrairement au premier volume, ça n'est pas la place de la femme dans la série qui est centrale ici (même si elle reste très présente) et la diversité des thèmes abordés fait du bien. La vision des différentes ères de la série sur la science, la religion, l'adolescence, la politique, la lutte des classes... l'évolution du rôle des compagnons et du personnage même du Docteur...
Et comme pour le premier volume, on est parfois d'accord, parfois pas du tout. Certains articles nous laissent indifférents, d'autres nous ouvrent sur une toute nouvelle réflexion, et d'autres encore nous agacent tant le point de vue défendu est à l'opposé du notre.
Et encore une fois lorsque est arrivée la dernière page, j'en ai voulu plus. Si elles se sentent l'envie de nous faire un volume sur les livres ou les Audios, ou même sur l'évolution de la couleur des murs, pas de soucis, je fonce dessus.
The choice of 'season' to mean 'series' in the case of classic Who could have been forgiven if the use had been explained. As a child, I don't recall anyone talking about this series or that series of Doctor Who, as it was more accurately a serial than series (unlike new Who), and even today the DVD releases fail to portion things into series or seasons. So to have writers continually talk about season seven or eighteen or five was extremely confusing, until you reached a point in the essay that identified a Doctor and, more importantly, a companion.
All that confusion could have been avoided with the inclusion of a list of Doctors, story titles and how they were going to be referred to in the book, but instead we were left to guess. It was sloppy.




